A door that slides horizontally along a track, common in Japanese architecture.
I opened the sliding door of the Japanese-style room and went inside.
This sliding door is light and easy to open.
引き戸 is the general term for any sliding door (including modern glass or wood versions), while 障子 refers specifically to the traditional paper-lattice sliding door.
引き戸 is the general term for any sliding door, while 襖 refers specifically to the traditional opaque paper-covered wooden-lattice sliding screen.
Standard kanji spelling; high priority in news and frequency lists.
Simplified kanji variant, less common but still seen.
Compound of 引き (hiki, 'pulling', the continuative form of 引く) and 戸 (to, 'door'), with rendaku voicing to ど. Literally 'pull-door'.