ひがし

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of ひがし – see the following entries.

【東】2 [noun] the east (compass point) [noun] the Orient [noun] an easterly (wind blowing from the east) [noun] (sumo) higher-ranked wrestlers listed on the right of a banzuke [noun] an Eastern Bloc country [noun] (regional, historical) Kamakura and/or Edo, as opposed to Kyoto and Osaka [noun] This term needs a translation to English. [proper noun] a historical red-light district in Edo located east of Edo Castle, today in Fukagawa, Kōtō, Tokyo prefecture [proper noun] (Buddhism) Short for 東本願寺 (Higashi Hongan-ji): a Buddhist temple in Shimogyō, Kyoto, Japan [proper noun] Higashi (multiple places throughout Japan, especially referring to a ward in Okayama, Kumamoto, Sakai, Sapporo, Nagoya, Niigata, Hamamatsu, Hiroshima and Fukuoka) [proper noun] A former ward of Osaka, Japan [proper noun] a surname

(This term, ひがし (higashi), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.) For a list of all kanji read as ひがし, see Category:Japanese kanji read as ひがし.)

(The following entries are uncreated: 干菓子, 日貸し.)