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漢字Kanji · in Structures & Home

戸: door, counter for houses

Also: door radical (no. 63)

JLPT N24 strokesGrade 2Your ink: 白 Not met
4 strokes
  • Oracle bone · Shang
  • Bronze · Zhou
  • Small seal · Qin
  • Today

Oracle bone and bronze: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Small seal: Academia Sinica 小學堂, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Two readings, and the words that use each

コko · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 戸籍こせきcensus, family register
  • 戸主こしゅhead of a household
  • 戸外こがいopen-air, outdoors
  • 門戸もんこgate and door

とto · kun'yomi · on its own

  • 戸とdoor
  • 戸棚とだなcupboard
  • 雨戸あまどsliding storm door
  • 井戸いどwater well
  • ガラス戸ガラスどglass door

Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.

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Where it comes from

Origin · sourced

Pictogram (象形)

One-half of 門 (“gate”). The character in its original form is similar to 𠁣.

Source: Wiktionary, 戶 (rev. 91933110), CC BY-SA 4.0

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“The base kanji for a door, also used to count "households" in a census or family register.”
From the 戸 door story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered

戸 gives its sound to

The family reading is コ (ko). Sound parts: KanjiVG.

Also read コ

27 kanji share this on'yomiAll 27
In ChineseSimplified 户 · traditional 戶 · hù

Three different forms: Japanese 戸, simplified 户, traditional 戶.

Simplified
户 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
戶 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin hù most common reading

Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.

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