WORD DETAIL
土塀
どべい
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Study notes
1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning
- Structure:
土塀, readどべい, is an earthen wall built chiefly from soil to enclose a house or mark a boundary. - Basic usage: Evening shadows may stretch across an old wall, or its curved form may be reproduced in a village model.
2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions
- A wall constructed from earth
- This is an earthen wall crossed by evening shadows or reproduced in a village model. It does not mean a pile of soil or every wall of a building.

