Pinyin: dōng

east

Example sentence

超市在东边。

Chāoshì zài dōngbiān.

The supermarket is to the east.

What 东 means

(dōng) is an Chinese word meaning “east”. It belongs to the Places & Travel topic and appears at HSK 3, so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Chinese.

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