戸
(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)
- door
CompoundsEdit
Etymology 1Edit
Alternative spellings
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戶 (kyūjitai) 門
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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
戸 • (to)
- door; a plate placed on doorway
Etymology 2Edit
Alternative spelling
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戶 (kyūjitai)
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Sino-Japanese, from Middle Chinese 戶 (MC ɦuoX).
PronunciationEdit
戸 • (ko)
- houses; apartments
戸 • (-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