东 - Mandarin word #5378

东

dōng

Traditional: 東

#5378 of 5,000 Core 5000

Translation

east (traditional form)

Stroke order

东

？

What is this thing?

買mǎi。

I want to buy some things.

。

My home is on the east side of the city.

。

We are heading east.

座zuò山shān。

There is a small hill to the east.

東 (dōng) is the traditional form of 东, meaning east. With 西 it forms 東西 (dōng xī), thing.

东西

thing, stuff (traditional)

Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 东.

Track this word in your spaced-repetition queue and be tested on it at the right interval.

This word is part of lesson 108.