どつぼ – Vocabulary details

どつぼ

Noun

Usually written in kana

1. very bad condition; awful state; terrible situation; in the shit

usu. as どつぼにはまる

2. night-soil reservoir dug in a field

3. night-soil pot

orig. meaning

4. earthenware vessel; earthen urn

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つぼ

Saturday; earth; dirt; land; lands; earth (third of the five elements)

pot; jar; dice cup; depression; basin (e.g. of a waterfall); aim; what one wants

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