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U+6238, 戸
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6238

CJK Unified Ideographs

Translingual

Stroke order
Traditional
Shinjitai
Simplified

Han character

(Kangxi radical 63, +0, 4 strokes, cangjie input 一尸 (MS) or 難一尸 (XMS), composition )

References

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

Chinese

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

Japanese

Shinjitai

Kyūjitai

Kanji

(Second grade kyōiku kanjishinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form )

  1. door

Readings

  • Go-on: (gu) (go)
  • Kan-on: (ko, Jōyō)
  • Kun: (to, , Jōyō) (he, )
  • Nanori: (e) (he)

Compounds

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term

Grade: 2
kun'yomi
Alternative spellings
(kyūjitai)

From Old Japanese, from Proto-Japonic *to. According to Beckwith (2004), related to the Kara word dol (/⁠dor⁠/, door).

Pronunciation

Noun

() (to

  1. door; a plate placed on doorway
Synonyms

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term

Grade: 2
kan'on
Alternative spelling
(kyūjitai)
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Sino-Japanese, from Middle Chinese (MC huX).

Pronunciation

Noun

() (ko

  1. houses; apartments
  2. door
  3. The smallest administrative division under the ritsuryō system of governance.

Counter

() (-ko

  1. house; apartment
    ()(かい)()4()()(きょう)(どう)(じゅう)(たく)
    nikaidate yoko no kyōdōjūtaku
    two-storey apartment building with four units
  2. household; family

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. ^ 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