ドウ
Meanings
Noun
Suffix
1. temple; shrine; chapel
This is a really old temple, isn't it?
2. hall
There's a large memorial hall in the park.
Suffix
3. company
suffix used in company names, store names, etc.
What was the name again? It was something-dō, right?
Archaic
Noun
Suffix
4. front room
Pitch accent
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Used in vocabulary (76 in total)
magnificent; grand; fair; square; grandly; boldly
empty; hollow; bare; main hall of a temple (often vast and empty)
enshrinement hall (of a buddha); temple; cathedral (esp. Catholic)
edifice; temple; hall
chapel; building used for worship (in front of the main hall of a Buddhist temple)
main hall (of a Buddhist temple); main temple
hexagonal building
dining room; dining hall; cafeteria; restaurant; eatery; snack bar
(Confucian) temple; church; sanctuary
auditorium; lecture hall
chapel; building used for worship (in front of the main hall of a Buddhist temple)
church; chapel; synagogue; tabernacle
heaven; paradise
assembly hall; parliament house; diet building; capitol; houses of parliament; congress hall
concert hall
one building (hall, temple, shrine, room); same room; same place; same building
church; cathedral; chapel
temple dedicated to Kannon
palace; hall; shrine; temple; hall of fame
on the roof; court nobles
main temple building
ossuary; crypt; charnel house
wayside shrine
town hall; public hall
mausoleum; imperial court
temple hall with a Kshitigarbha (Jizō) image
you; your beautiful home
temple; temple buildings
belfry; bell tower
temple hall containing an enshrined image of Amitabha
the whole audience
hall or room where a private Buddha statue or ancestor tablets are kept
noh theatre; noh theater
temple building enshrining a statue of Buddha; Buddhist shrine
temple keeper
(Catholic) church; cathedral
temple meditation hall or certain other temple structures
thatched hut; monks cell; (my) humble abode
sutra library
Junkudo (bookstore chain)
reception compound; part of the palace where important ceremonies were held
kagura hall (at a shrine)
complete seven-structured temple compound
temple hall dedicated to Yama
hall with an enshrined statue of Kobo Daishi (at a Shingon temple)
baptistery; baptistry
zendo (Zen meditation hall)
lecture hall of a temple (esp. Zen)
mortuary chapel
shrine building where votive picture tablets are hung
dining hall (at a temple)
visiting a shrine; visiting a home
temple hall commemorating its founding or its founder
your family; your mother
Ito-Yokado (retail chain)
large and small buildings, esp. shrines and temples
belfry; bell tower; campanile
separate building
home; mother
outer roofed structure for protecting cultural assets and historic sites
outer roofed structure for protecting cultural assets and historic sites
outer roofed structure for protecting cultural assets and historic sites
Buddhist sermon hall
charnel house; ossuary
small building used for worship or sutra chanting (located in front of the main hall of a Buddhist temple)
Kyoto Prefectural Insho-domoto Museum of Fire Arts
Sanseido (publisher)
Shiseido (Japanese cosmetics firm)
Shinseido (Japanese book, music and sporting goods retail chain)
Murakami Corporation
Oishi Tengudo (karuta maker); Ohishi Tengudo
Matsui Tengudo (karuta maker)
Examples (6 in total)
The meeting hall was closed.
This is a really old temple, isn't it?
This temple brings back memories.