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