どう

See also: とう

Japanese

Adverb

どう (rōmaji dō)

  1. 如何: in what manner?

Usage notes
  • The hiragana spelling (どう) is preferred to the kanji spelling (如何), which is rarely used.

Synonyms

Derived terms

See also
Japanese demonstratives
ko-
“this”
(close to speaker)		 so-
“that”
(close to listener)		 a-
“that over there”
(far from both)		 do-
“which”
(indeterminate, question)
Object これ (kore) それ (sore) あれ (are) どれ (dore)
これら (korera) それら (sorera) あれら (arera) —
Determiner この (kono) その (sono) あの (ano) どの (dono)
これらの (korera no) それらの (sorera no) あれらの (arera no) —
Kind こんな (konna) そんな (sonna) あんな (anna) どんな (donna)
Place ここ (koko) そこ (soko) あそこ (asoko)* どこ (doko)
Direction こちら (kochira) そちら (sochira) あちら (achira) どちら (dochira)
こっち (kotchi) そっち (sotchi) あっち (atchi) どっち (dotchi)
Human こいつ (koitsu) そいつ (soitsu) あいつ (aitsu) どいつ (doitsu)
Manner こう (kō) そう (sō) ああ (ā)** どう (dō)
* irregular
** regular (long vowel)

Interjection

どう (rōmaji dō)

  1. Casual greeting: Howdy? What's new? What's up?
    どう？まあまあ。
    Dō? Māmā.
    Howdy? So-so.
  2. Casual question: It works? Is it OK?
    どう？いいんじゃない。
    Dō? Ii n ja nai.
    It works? Seems OK.
  3. Call out to horses or cows to control/stop them: Ho! Hoy! Whoa!

Noun

どう (rōmaji dō)

  1. 胴: body, torso, trunk
  2. 動: movement, action
  3. 堂: hall, temple, building
  4. 筒: hub (central part of a wheel)
  5. 道: way
  6. 銅: copper
  7. 幢:
  8. 鐃: in ancient China, a gong used in the army to signal the drumming to stop; (Buddhism) a kind of gong used at Buddhist temples

Prefix

どう (rōmaji dō-)

  1. 同: same

Suffix

どう (rōmaji -dō)

  1. 堂: hall, temple, building
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