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堀 kanji
ditch, moat, canal
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N2 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 11
- School grade
- Secondary school
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クツ
Kun readings
ほり
Words with 堀
LevelWord & meaningActions
- N2堀Popularmoat; fosse; canal; ditch
- —外堀Popularouter moat (of a castle)
- —堀川Popularcanal
- —内堀Popularinner moat; moat within the castle walls
- —堀江Popularcanal
- —釣り堀Popularfish pond (artificially stocked); fishing pond
- —堀割canal; waterway; ditch
- —堀端side of a moat
- —空堀dry moat
- —竪堀ascending trench or pathway cut into a naturally-occurring slope
- —横堀moat; horizontal trench
- —用水堀irrigation ditch
- —小堀流kobori; swimming while wearing armor
- —堀切りman-made water channel (e.g. round a castle); artificial trench; moat
- —堀散らすto dig up messily
- —外堀を埋めるto remove obstacles in the way of one's objective; to take an indirect approach; to fill in the outer moat
- —外堀が埋まるto be clear of obstacles in the way of one's objective
- —釣堀fish pond (artificially stocked); fishing pond
- —縦堀ascending trench or pathway cut into a naturally-occurring slope
- —堀切man-made water channel (e.g. round a castle); artificial trench; moat