Kanji1 / 9
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
- —江戸城Edo Castle (residence of the Shogun during the Edo period, now the site of the Tokyo Imperial Palace)
- —破城槌battering ram
- —竜宮城Palace of the Dragon King; palace from the story of Urashima Taro (said to be located at the bottom of the sea)
- —占城稲Champa rice
- —入城料entrance fee (for a castle); admission fee
- —攻城戦siege; siege warfare
- —名城大Meijō University (abbr)
- —金城鉄壁impregnable castle (walls); impregnable; invulnerable; unassailable
- —金城湯池an impregnable fortress; an unassailable territory
- —孤城落日feeling (looking) lone and helpless; helplessness of those in reduced circumstances
- —一国一城(possession of) one feudal domain and one castle; being independent (acting without compromise or assistance); establishing only one castle in each feudal domain (edict issued by the shogunate in 1615)
- —孤城落月feeling apprehensive; feeling (looking) lone and helpless; being down-and-out (ruined); helplessness of those in reduced circumstances
- —籠城作戦strategy of holing oneself up in a castle (house, building)
- —城郭都市fortified city; walled city
- —城下の盟capitulation; surrender; treaty signed under coercion
- —砂の長城Great Wall of Sand (Chinese land reclamation project in the Spratly Islands)
- —無血開城capitulation without resistance; surrendering without fighting
- —たけし城Takeshi's Castle (Japanese game show, 1986-1989)
- —城西大学Josai University
- —長城航空Air Great Wall