泥

• 読み: どろ
• ローマ字: doro
• 漢字の分解: 泥 (doro/dei) — mud; composed of 氵 (water radical) + 尼 (phonetic)
• 発音: /do.ɾo/

意味

Mud; wet dirt. Soft, wet earth formed by mixing soil and water.

Appears in common compounds like 泥棒 (thief — literally mud stick, from the idea of someone covered in mud sneaking around) and 泥沼 (quagmire, both literally and figuratively). The phrase 泥だらけ means covered in mud.

例文

1. 雨の後、靴が泥だらけになりました。
2. 子供が泥で遊んで服を汚しました。
3. 田んぼの泥の中に足がはまってしまった。

使い方ガイド

場面: nature, daily life, weather

トーン: neutral

起源と歴史

The kanji 泥 combines 氵 (water radical) and 尼 as a phonetic component, depicting earth saturated with water.

文化的背景

時代: Ancient

世代: All ages

社会的背景: Universal