土俵

Japanese
Kanji in this term
土 俵
ど
Grade: 1		 ひょう
Grade: 6
kan’yōon on’yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

土(ど)俵(ひょう) • (dohyō) ←どへう (dofeu)?

  1. (sumo) the ring
  2. 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
  1. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: 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), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN
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