Japanese edit

Alternative spellings
勘所
肝所
甲所

Etymology edit

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The tokoro changes to dokoro as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

かんどころ (kandokoroかんどころ (kandokoro)?

  1. important part; crux

References edit

  1. 1.0 1.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN