土俵

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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 (Heiban – )^[1]^[2]
IPA^(key):

Noun

土(ど)俵(ひょう) • (dohyō) ^{←どへう (dofeu)^?}

(sumo) the ring
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

References

^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

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