戸

See also: 戶 and 户

戸	U+6238, 戸 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6238

← 户
[U+6237]

CJK Unified Ideographs

戹 →
[U+6239]

TranslingualEdit

Stroke order

Traditional	戶
Shinjitai	戸
Simplified	户

Han characterEdit

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Radical 63 戸

戸 (Kangxi radical 63, 戶+0, 4 strokes, cangjie input 一尸 (MS) or X一尸 (XMS), composition ⿱一尸)

ReferencesEdit

KangXi: not present, would follow page 414, character 32
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2257, character 1
Unihan data for U+6238

ChineseEdit

For pronunciation and definitions of 戸 – see 戶 (“door; family; household; etc.”). (This character, 戸, is a variant form of 戶.)

JapaneseEdit

KanjiEdit

戸

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

door

ReadingsEdit

Go-on: ぐ (gu); ご (go)
Kan-on: こ (ko, Jōyō)
Kun: と (to, 戸, Jōyō); へ (he, 戸)
Nanori: え (e); へ (he)

CompoundsEdit

Compounds

Etymology 1Edit

Kanji in this term
戸
と Grade: 2
kun’yomi

Alternative spellings
戶 (kyūjitai) 門

From Old Japanese, from Proto-Japonic *to. According to Beckwith, related to the Kara word dol (/dor/, “door”)^[1]

Speculatively, compare Proto-Indo-European *dʰwṓr (“door”) (whence Sanskrit द्वार् (dvā́r), English door) and hence a possible doublet of ドア (doa).

PronunciationEdit

Kun’yomi

(Tokyo) と [tò] (Heiban – [0])^[2]^[3]
IPA^(key): [to̞]

NounEdit

戸(と) • (to)

door; a plate placed on doorway

SynonymsEdit

棟(むね) (mune), 棟(とう) (tō)
軒(けん) (ken)

Etymology 2Edit

Kanji in this term
戸
こ Grade: 2
kan’on

Alternative spelling
戶 (kyūjitai)

Sino-Japanese, from Middle Chinese 戶 (MC ɦuo^X).

PronunciationEdit

On’yomi: Kan’on

IPA^(key): [ko̞]

NounEdit

戸(こ) • (ko)

houses; apartments

CounterEdit

戸(こ) • (-ko)

house; apartment
household; family

ReferencesEdit

^ Beckwith, Christopher I. (2004), “Koguryo, the language of Japan's continental relatives: an introduction to the historical-comparative study of the Japanese-Koguryoic languages with a preliminary description of Archaic Northeastern Middle Chinese”, in Brill's Japanese Studies Library, Brill, page 40.
^ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
^ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN

[1] Beckwith, Christopher I. (2004), “Koguryo, the language of Japan's continental relatives: an introduction to the historical-comparative study of the Japanese-Koguryoic languages with a preliminary description of Archaic Northeastern Middle Chinese”, in Brill's Japanese Studies Library, Brill, page 40.

[DJR-2] 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

[NHK-3] 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN

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