雨戸
あまど · amado · JLPT N2 · noun
door
🌧️🚪 雨戸 = rain + door: the door that keeps the rain out
雨 (ame, rain) becomes ama- in compounds, and 戸 (to, door) voices to -do: ama + do = amado. These are the sliding wooden shutters on Japanese houses, pulled shut against storms and rain.
雨 — pictograph: sky 一 + cloud 冂 + four water drops
雨 is a pictograph showing rain falling from a cloud under the sky. The top horizontal stroke represents the sky, the enclosing shape depicts a cloud, and the four small strokes inside are falling raindrops. Its meaning 'rain' has stayed consistent since oracle bone script.