Meanings
Readings
Common Words
chain; chains
to shut; to close; to fasten; to lock
to block (a street, entrance, etc.)
Usu. in the passive
to shut in (with snow, ice, etc.); to shut off; to cut off; to cover (e.g. in darkness)
Usu. in the passive
to consume (with negative feelings); to fill (e.g. with sadness); to bury (e.g. in grief)
closing; closure
shutdown; lockout
blockade; lockdown; sealing off (an area)
freezing (funds)
chain; series; connection
Genetics
linkage
handcuffs; manacles
ๆ้ only; Historical term
confinement in chains (Edo-era judicial corporal punishment)
lock; padlock
้ only; Counter
tablet; pill
Noun or participle which takes the aux. verb suru
national isolation; closing the country (to foreigners)
Historical term
sakoku; policy of national isolation enacted by the Tokugawa shogunate
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