ドア
ドア
hepburn doa
door
Part of speech · noun
Pattern visualization
no decomposition available
Examples
- ドアを閉めてください。Please close the door.
- 玄関のドアが開きません。The entrance door won't open.
Collocations
ドア (doa, door — loanword)扉 (tobira, door — kanji, formal)玄関 (genkan, entrance hall)引き戸 (hikido, sliding door — traditional)ドアノブ (doanobu, doorknob)
Mnemonic
ドア doa — the English "door" taken in whole as a loanword, yet the door is never just one. The Western swing door is ドア, Japan's traditional sliding door is 引き戸, and in formal and poetic places the old kanji 扉 quietly keeps the gate. Paper-woven 障子 and 襖 still live on in the narrow city home, and 扉 opens too as a metaphor — 心の扉, the door of the heart.
Quick check
Standard door type in traditional Japanese homes?