Kana: ひがし

east

Example sentence

スーパーは駅の東にあります。

すーぱーはえきのひがしにあります。

The supermarket is to the east of the station.

What 東 means

(ひがし) is an Japanese word meaning “east”. It belongs to the Places & Travel topic and appears at Level 1, so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Japanese.

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