東

Meaning

1. n
   east
2. n
   east wind tile
3. n
   winning hand with a pung (or kong) of east wind tiles
4. n archaic
   eastern Japan (esp. Kamakura or Edo, from perspective of Kyoto or Nara); eastern provinces
5. n archaic
   east
6. n abbreviation
   wagon; yamatogoto; six-stringed native Japanese zither
7. n
   my spouse

Example sentences

• 美術館の東の陳列棟は清掃のため閉鎖されていた。

  The museum's eastern gallery was closed for cleaning.

• ＵＦＯは飛行物体とは到底思えないジグザグの動きで、東の山に飛んでいった。

  The UFO, with a zigzag movement you couldn't think of as being a plane, flew off into the mountains in the east.

• 名古屋は京都の東の方にある。

  Nagoya is to the east of Kyoto.