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城 kanji
castle
- JLPT level
- N2 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 9
- School grade
- Grade 4 (elementary school)
On readings
ジョウセイ
Kun readings
しろ
Words with 城
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —籠城holding a castle (during a siege); holing up; confinement (to one's home); staying at home; staying indoors
- —築城castle construction; building a castle; fortification
- —城塞fortress; stronghold; citadel
- —城市castle town; fortified town
- —落城fall of a castle; surrender of a castle; giving up (on something); giving in (to persuasion); yielding
- —金城impregnable castle; inner castle citadel; golden castle (nickname for Nagoya Castle)
- —居城castle of a feudal lord
- —浮城floating fortress; warship
- —干城defending soldier
- —城外outside a castle
- —城池castle moat
- —城兵castle garrison
- —城府town; town walls
- —城塁fortress
- —登城attendance at a castle
- —廃城abandoned castle
- —城隍castle and moat; castle's moat; City God (Taoist guardian god of a city)
- —城楼watchtower of a castle
- —都城castle town
- —平城Heijō-kyō (capital of Japan from 710-40 and 745-84; located in present-day Nara)