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歩道 (ほどう, hodou) Japanese meaning: sidewalk | Kotomora
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いる
とき
に
、
自じ
転てん
車しゃ
が
後うし
ろ
から
来き
た
。
While I was walking on the sidewalk, a bicycle came up from behind.
This street has wide sidewalks and is easy to walk on.
Usage patterns 〈 場ば 所しょ 〉 を 歩ほ 道どう が 通とお る a sidewalk runs along (a place)
A sidewalk runs along the riverbank.
歩ほ 道どう を 歩ある く to walk on the sidewalk
The children walked to school on the sidewalk.
歩ほ 道どう が 狭せま い ／ 広ひろ い the sidewalk is narrow / wide
This street's sidewalk is narrow and hard to walk on.
Expressions 動うご く 歩ほ 道どう moving walkway; moving sidewalk; travelator Kanji 道 road-way, street, district Don't confuse with 路肩 is the narrow shoulder at the edge of a road (often unpaved and not meant for walking), whereas 歩道 is a proper paved sidewalk for pedestrians.
歩道 is a permanent sidewalk running alongside a road, whereas 歩行者天国 is an entire street temporarily closed to all vehicle traffic.
歩道 is a paved sidewalk built for pedestrians, whereas 道端 is simply the unspecified area along a road, paved or not.
Word family footbridge; pedestrian overpass
pedestrian crossing; crosswalk
long-distance nature trail
Etymology Compound of 歩 (walking) and 道 (path, road). The word is a straightforward modern coinage for a pedestrian walkway.
