土俵

Japanese

Kanji in this term
土	俵
ど Grade: 1	ひょう Grade: 6
kan’yōon	on’yomi

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) どひょー [dòhyóó] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [do̞ço̞ː]

Noun

土(ど)俵(ひょう) • (dohyō) ^{←どへう (dofeu)?}

1. (sumo) the ring
2. a sandbag
   • 1951, Tōkai-ku Suisan Kenkyūjo kenkyū hōkoku [Bulletin of Tokai Regional Fisheries Research Laboratory], volume 2, →OCLC:

     土(ど)俵(ひょう)は米(こめ)の空(から)俵(たわら)に砂(じゃ)利(り)を詰(つ)めたもので、ビクはワラ縄(なわ)で袋(ふくろ)を編(あ)みその中(なか)へ石(いし)を詰(つ)めたもの

     Dohyō wa kome no kara tawara ni jari o tsumeta mono de, biku wa wara nawa de fukuro o ami sono naka e ishi o tsumeta mono

     A dohyō is an empty rice bag stuffed with gravel, while a biku is a bag knitted together with straw cord and filled with stones