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まど · mado · JLPT N5 · noun

window

🪟 ma (間 gap) + do (戸 door): a window is a door-gap in the wall

A common folk etymology splits mado into 間 (ma, space or gap) and 戸 (to/do, door), so a window is a door set in a gap. Another reading is 目戸, eye-door. Either way, the do is the same door word found in 戸 (to).

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