闍
闍 — do
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 성문 도
- Romanization
- do
- English
- tower over city gate
- Mandarin
- dū
- Japanese on'yomi
- ジャ, ト, シャ, ツ
- Japanese usage
- Not on either list
- Strokes
- 16
- Radical
- 門 (169, 9 residual)
- Unicode
- U+95CD
Parts that make up 闍
How 闍 was formed
Traditional analysis treats 闍 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 門, 者.
Japanese words with 闍
- 阿闍梨あじゃり high monk (esp. one of correct conduct who acts as a role model for his pupils); high priest; initiate (esp. as a formal rank in Tendai and Shingon)
- 閻魔羅闍えんまらじゃ Yama (king of the world of the dead, who judges the dead); Emma; Yan
- 阿闍世コンプレックスあじゃせコンプレックス Ajase complex (feelings of guilt towards one's mother)
Other hanja read “도”
Other hanja with radical 門
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