Tomoyo Daidouji

### Likes

Music and Japanese class, the colors beige and white, soba noodle and sushi, italian foods, photography, filming, making costumes for Sakura, singing, tulip magnolia

## Professional Status

### Affiliation

Tomoeda Elementary School (Formerly)
Tomoeda Junior High School (Currently)

## Relationships

### Parents

Sonomi Daidouji (Mother)
 Unnamed Father

### Other relatives

Touya Kinomoto (2nd Cousin)
 Sakura Kinomoto (2nd Cousin)
 Nadeshiko Kinomoto (1st Cousin once removed) †
 Tai Kamiya (Cousin)
Kari Kamiya (Cousin)
Yuuko Kamiya (Aunt)
Susumu Kamiya (Uncle)
Masaki Amamiya (Great grandfather)
 Unnamed Great Grandmother †

## Voice Actors

### English

Natalie Hoover

**Tomoyo Daidouji** (大道寺 知世, *Daidōji Tomoyo*) is the best friend of Sakura Kinomoto, and her second cousin on their mothers' side.

Tomoyo faithfully keeps Sakura's new identity secret and often covers for her in times of need. She aids Sakura's efforts to be in the company of Yukito Tsukishiro on many occasions, and, in the second half of the series, becomes the confidante of Syaoran Li when he finds himself falling in love with Sakura.

Tomoyo is a talented singer, and very melodic, she has a lovely singing voice. She also sings in a club at school, often has solos in choir recitals and performing in various school events.

## Description

### Appearance

Tomoyo is an elegant, beautiful and delicate-looking porcelain-white skinned young girl with wavy waist-length grayish-violet hair that is very similar to Nadeshiko Kinomoto (Sakura Kinomoto's mother) and purple eyes. It was later revealed that Sonomi Daidouji (Tomoyo's mother) had made her grow her hair like that so she would look like Nadeshiko and purple eyes, making her and Sakura the only two people to have an eye color other than brown or grey from her other classmates (excluding Eriol). Tomoyo's outfits change frequently like Sakura's throughout the series.

Her most iconic everyday outfit is her school uniform, as well as her battle outfit, which changes depending on the season. Her winter school uniform is a black long-sleeved shirt with red and white sleeve cuffs, a white neckerchief with a red stripe, and a white pleated miniskirt with a frilly white knee-length petticoat. On particularly cold days, she wears a thick black coat with her school's insignia on the back. Her summer uniform is a white half-sleeved shirt with a red neckerchief and a black pleated miniskirt. All year round, black Mary Jane shoes are worn along with white socks and a white sailor hat with a black trim.

### Personality

Tomoyo is depicted as being mature for her age, kindhearted, intelligent, and regularly speaking using more formal verb conjugations and expressions giving her a unique air of refinement than normally seen amongst elementary students. She is cute, kind, caring, sweet, highly intelligent, beautiful, meticulous, and extravagantly perfectionist. Tomoyo can be slightly over the top at times (only where Sakura is concerned), but otherwise she is practically perfect in every way.

One of her major character traits is her selflessness towards Sakura. She enjoys making costumes for Sakura to wear and filming her all the time. She is able to control many situations at once and is very wise, helping Meiling and Syaoran on their emotional troubles. When needed, Tomoyo can exhibit considerable cunning and resourcefulness, which was most prominently displayed in the final movie (much of which revolved around a complicated scheme she had devised to give Sakura as many opportunities as possible to confess her feelings to Syaoran).

## Etymology

* Her given name **Tomoyo** means "knowledge" (知) (**tomo**) and "world" (世) (**yo**). It can also mean "wise era; wise people".
* Tomoyo's surname **Daidouji** means "big, great" (大) (**dai**), "road" (道) (**dou**) and "temple" (寺) (**ji**).

## Trivia

* Like Cerberus, who has a habit of ending phrases with "~ya" (~や) (although this is because of his Kansai dialect), Tomoyo has a habit of ending phrases with "~wa" (~わ). (Ex.: "~desu-wa" (~ですわ), "~masu-wa" (~ますわ), etc.). This is a common way to make a sentence sound more feminine.