桶

Glyph origin
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Etymology
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Definitions

 * 1) pail; bucket; tub
 * 2) cask; keg
 * 3) barrel
 * 4)  million

Kanji

 * 1) a tub, a bucket

Etymology 1


From. First cited in the  of 759.

Originally a compound of.

Noun

 * 1)  a tube-shaped container for holding split flax or hemp, usually made of thin cypress wood bent to shape
 * 2)  by extension, a pail, bucket, tub, or basin similar to a barrel in construction, made of long thin pieces of cedar or cypress extending up from a base and held in place with hoops; may be small enough to carry in one hand, or large enough to bathe in
 * 3)   a stool on stage, on which an actor sits

Idioms

 * , : "open up what's in your bucket" → to come clean to someone, with no hard feelings and no subterfuge
 * : "if the bucket rots, the greens rot" → if the surrounding is bad, it affects the inside

Derived terms

 * : using an oke to cross a river
 * : a person or store that makes, fixes, and/or sells oke and well walls
 * : the fire in a hioke
 * : a type of wooden hibachi
 * : a place in the south of Midori-ku, Nagoya
 * : a style of pottery originating near Okehazama
 * : tying cord bands around an oke; an oke maker, an okeya
 * : a cloth dying process whereby the sections to leave undyed are put into oke and closed in with lids
 * : alternate name for, : , var. glabrum, a bush with edible (though sour) berries
 * : a scene in a kyōgen farce presented between Noh plays; a woman working as a water carrier
 * : the aft edge of the hull of a ship in traditional Japanese shipbuilding
 * : the hipbone
 * : a river in southeast Saitama Prefecture
 * : the sides of an oke, the staves; a bowl-shaped container for holding trawling lines on a fishing boat
 * : a type of breastplate made of steel strips bound together, somewhat similar to how okegawa are bound together to make an oke
 * : a cooper, a woodworker who specializes in making barrels, oke, and well walls
 * : alternate name for ; a type of drum
 * : an oke fitted with a firebox for heating bathwater: a traditional Japanese wooden ofuro hottub
 * : wearing an oke on one's head: a mob punishment in the pleasure districts of early Edo-period Japan, where non-paying customers would be forced to wear an oke on their heads, were sat down on the side of the street, and forced to pay up

Etymology 2
. First cited to a work from the late 1100s.

May be obsolete; not listed in some dictionaries.

Noun

 * 1)   an oke (tub, bucket, basin) or taru (, “barrel”)

Hanja

 * 1) (통 통, tong-): barrel, bucket, can, cask, pail, tub, vat, compare ton, Dut. ton ("vat")