See also: and
U+6238, 戸
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6238

[U+6237]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+6239]

TranslingualEdit

Stroke order
 
Traditional
Shinjitai
Simplified

Han characterEdit

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

ReferencesEdit

ChineseEdit

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

JapaneseEdit

KanjiEdit

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. door

ReadingsEdit

CompoundsEdit

Etymology 1Edit

Kanji in this term

Grade: 2
kun’yomi
Alternative spellings
(kyūjitai)

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

NounEdit

() (to

  1. door; a plate placed on doorway
SynonymsEdit

Etymology 2Edit

Kanji in this term

Grade: 2
kan’on
Alternative spelling
(kyūjitai)

Sino-Japanese, from Middle Chinese (MC ɦuoX).

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

() (ko

  1. houses; apartments

CounterEdit

() (-ko

  1. house; apartment
  2. household; family

ReferencesEdit

  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.
  2. ^ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  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