俵 means “straw bale, sack”

たわら · tawara

Also: bag, bale, counter for bags

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

たわら

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

ヒョウ

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The story

A person (亻) beside 表, the outside: picture a worker shouldering a bale wrapped in straw. 俵 is a straw sack, a 米俵 holds rice, and the edge of the sumo ring, the 土俵, is a circle of straw bales packed with earth.

Used in 俵 (tawara, straw bale), 米俵 (komedawara, bale of rice), and 土俵 (dohyou, sumo ring)

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