Word Meaning 土壇
どだん
dodan
土壇 is read as どだん (dodan) and means dirt mound.
Meaning
English
- dirt mound
- dirt walls on the inside of the sunken hearth in a tea room
- platform made of dirt used to perform executions (decapitations) in the Edo period
Reading
Kana
どだん
Romaji
dodan
Stroke Sequence
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Related Vocabulary
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3彼は土壇場で計画をキャンセルした。
かれはどたんばでけいかくをきゃんせるした。
He canceled the plan at the last minute.
なんとか土壇場で間に合ったよ。
I just made it under the wire.
土壇場で言葉が旨く言えなかった。
Words failed me at the last minute.