土台

土台

Japanese

Kanji in this term
土	台
ど Grade: 1	だい Grade: 2
on’yomi

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) どだい [dòdáí] (Heiban – [0])[1]
• IPA^(key): [do̞da̠i]

Noun

土台(どだい) • (dodai) 

1. (construction) support base (clarification of this definition is needed)
2. (figurative) base
   • https://eprints.lib.hokudai.ac.jp/dspace/handle/2115/68742

     農民工(のうみんこう)にみる中国近代化(ちゅうごくきんだいか)の圧縮性(あっしゅくせい)：個人化論(こじんかろん)を分析(ぶんせき)の土台(どだい)として

     nōminkō ni miru chūgoku kindai-ka no asshukusei: kojinka-ron o bunseki no dodai to shite

     The Compressibility of China's Modernization as Seen among Migrant Workers: Based on the Theory of Individuation

Adverb

土台(どだい) • (dodai) 

1. from the beginning

References

1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN