Illustration: At a neighborhood sumo practice ground, two young adult wrestlers grapple inside a circular boundary formed by partially buried straw bales on a raised earthen platform. One wrestler balances desperately with a heel just inside the edge while the other presses forward.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

土ど俵ひょう

dohyou

sumo ring

Example sentences

相撲すもうでは、土どを盛もって土俵どひょうを作つくる。
In sumo, we make the ring by mounding earth.
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俗ぞくに「土俵どひょうには金かねが埋うまっている」と言いわれる。
It is said that money has been buried in the dohyo.
KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source
相手あいてを土俵どひょうの外そとに出だした場合ばあい。
When the opponent is pushed out of the dohyo.
KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 土俵

土soil; earthOnド・トKunつち
俵bag; baleOnヒョウKunたわら

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