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塞 kanji
close, shut, cover, block, obstruct
- JLPT level
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- N2 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 13
- School grade
- Secondary school
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Words with 塞
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —梗塞Popularstoppage; blocking; infarction; infarct
- —閉塞Popularblockage; blockade; blocking up; stoppage; obstruction; occlusion
- —塞栓embolus; abnormal substance (i.e. air) circulating in the blood
- —充塞plug; full up; being filled; stopped up
- —窒塞blocked
- —逼塞being trapped (and having no way out); withdrawal from society during personal financial hardship; house arrest (Edo period)
- —塞源blockage of a source
- —堰塞damming (e.g. a pond)
- —栓塞embolus
- —活塞piston
- —腸閉塞intestinal obstruction; ileus
- —脳梗塞cerebral infarction; (ischemic) stroke
- —塞栓症embolism
- —閉塞感locked up feeling; cooped up feeling; feeling of entrapment; feeling of hopelessness; being in a bind
- —優婆塞upasaka (devout male lay follower of Buddhism)
- —鼻閉塞nasal obstruction
- —脳塞栓cerebral embolism
- —肺塞栓pulmonary embolism; pulmonary thromboembolism
- —心筋梗塞heart attack; myocardial infarction
- —肺塞栓症pulmonary embolism