東独

Japanese

Kanji in this term
東	独
とう Grade: 2	どく Grade: 5
on'yomi

Alternative spelling
東獨 (kyūjitai)

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) とーどく [tòódókú] (Heiban – [0])
IPA^(key): [to̞ːdo̞kɯ̟]

Proper noun

東(とう)独(どく) • (Tōdoku)

(historical) synonym of 東ドイツ (Higashi Doitsu): East Germany (a former Communist country of Central Europe, existing between 1949 and 1990)
Antonym: 西独 (Seidoku)
- 2014, 土谷英夫, 1971年市場化とネット化の紀元, NTT出版, →ISBN, page 213:
  
  戦後(せんご)、米英仏占領地域(べいえいふつせんりょうちいき)だった西(にし)ベルリンは、社会主義(しゃかいしゅぎ)の東独(とうどく)（ソ連占領地区(れんせんりょうちく)）のなかにぽっかり空(あ)いた西側(にしがわ)の窓(まど)だった。
  Sengo, Beieifutsu senryō chiiki datta Nishi Berurin wa, shakai shugi no Tōdoku (Soren senryō chiku) no naka ni pokkari aita nishigawa no mado datta.
  West Berlin, which was occupied by the US, the UK, and France after the war, was the West's gaping window inside socialist East Germany (the Soviet occupation zone).