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

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

Translingual

Stroke order
Traditional
Shinjitai
Simplified

Han character

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

References

Chinese

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

Japanese

Kanji

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. door

Readings

Compounds

Etymology 1

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]

Pronunciation

Noun

() (to) 

  1. door; a plate placed on doorway
Synonyms

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term

Grade: 2
kan’on
Alternative spelling
(kyūjitai)

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ko̞]

Noun

() (ko) 

  1. houses; apartments

Counter

() (-ko) 

  1. house; apartment
  2. household; family

References

  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
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