direction; heading / course (in life etc.), goal

東: east / 乾菓子, 干菓子: cookies

a house / one's own home / a home, household / a family

east side / the East; Eastern Bloc

axe, hatchet

an easterly, wind blowing from the east

(theater); (historical) a red-light district in Edo located east of Edo Castle (today in Fukagawa, Kōtō Ward) / (Buddhism) Short for 東本願寺 (Higashi Hongan-ji): a Buddhist temple in Kyoto

a surname

(chiefly women's speech) first person singular pronoun: I, me

private; mine