戸 – Kanji details

Keyword

door

Info

Frequency	Top 700-800
Type	Kyōiku (2nd grade) ?
Kanken	Level 9
Heisig	1157
Readings	と (57%) ど (32%) こ (6%) べ (2%)
	ごっと

Composed of

一

one

尸

corpse with a flag

Mnemonic

This door... it doesn't open.... Oh, that corpse is the one that's holding the door! Even after its death it's still holding onto the doorknob with all of its might.

Used in kanji (13 in total)

所

place

戻

turn back to how it was

肩

shoulder

扉

front door

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Used in vocabulary (286 in total)

戸と惑まどう

to be bewildered; to be perplexed

戸と

door (esp. Japanese-style); shutter; window shutter; (arch.) entrance (to a home); (arch.) narrows

戸と惑まどい

being at sea; losing one's bearings; (arch.) disorientation upon waking at night; (arch.) forgetting which house or room to enter

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Examples (134 in total)

彼かれは戸と惑まどっていた。

He was perplexed.

皆みなは戸と惑まどったような顔かおで社しゃ長ちょうの笑わらいっぶりを見みていた。

Everybody watched the president laugh with a puzzled expression on their faces.

家いえに着ついた時とき戸とが開ひらいていたのは奇き妙みょうに思おもえた。

It seemed strange that the door was open when I got home.

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