First opened Sunday, April 10, 2011
殿
どの
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Mister (mostly in addressing someone on an envelope)
Dono is tono with the t voiced to d by rendaku.
Taken apart
No breakdown is shown for this word: Wiktionary's text for it doesn't give a split that spells the word and joins to its reading, and any other split would be a guess.
Written with 殿
In a sentence
We don't have the data for this section. The pinned Tatoeba export has no sentence with a translation that uses this word and passes our filter.
What Wiktionary says
Quoted line by line from Wiktionary's Etymology section for this reading, taken from one dated dump so it can't change underneath us. Nothing below is paraphrased.
- “The tono changes to dono as an instance of rendaku (連濁).”
Source: Wiktionary: 殿 (dump of 2026-09-02), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Reading, meaning and part of speech from JMdict, and kanji readings from KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG).
Other readings of 殿 on the same Wiktionary page
These describe other words written the same way, not どの. They are quoted for context: the parts, layer and processes of this word are not taken from them.
との
- “From Old Japanese. First attested in the Nihon Shoki of 720 CE.”
でん
- “From Middle Chinese 殿 (MC denH|tenH).”
What the labels mean
- 和語 Native Japanese
- Words that were already Japanese before Chinese vocabulary arrived — usually written with kun'yomi and often short.
- Rendaku
- The first sound of the second part voices when two native words join (kami → -gami).