Kanji1 / 7
束 kanji
bundle, sheaf, ream, tie in bundles, govern, manage, control
- JLPT level
- N3 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N4 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 7
- School grade
- Grade 4 (elementary school)
On readings
ソク
Kun readings
たばたばねるつかつかねる
Words with 束
LevelWord & meaningActions
- N4約束Popularpromise; agreement; arrangement; one's word; contract; pact; appointment; engagement; date; convention; rule; destiny; fate
- N1結束Popularunion; unity; solidarity; bundling; binding; tying; putting on (clothes, armour, etc.)
- N1拘束Popularrestriction; restraint; binding; constraint
- N1束縛Popularrestraint; restriction; fetters; yoke; shackles; binding; confinement with rope
- —約束通りPopularas promised
- —束lattice; counter for large bundles (e.g. 10 sheafs of rice, 200 sheets of calligraphy paper, 20 whistling arrows, 100 fish); handbreadth (unit for measuring the length of arrows); fascicle
- —検束arrest; custody; detention
- —牽束restraint; being exclusively absorbed in something
- —収束conclusion; resolution; settling (e.g. of a dispute); returning to normal; gathering and bundling; convergence; focusing (of light); convergence
- —装束costume; dress; attire
- —束帯old ceremonial court dress
- —束髪hairstyle introduced in the Meiji era consisting in a bun or chignon tied at the back of the head
- —束脩entrance fee; initiation fee; registration fee; present to a teacher; gift of dried meat from a new vassal or pupil
- —一束one bundle; one sheaf; one hundred
- —磁束magnetic flux
- —幣束offerings of rope, paper, etc. hung on trees in Shinto shrines
- —覊束fetters; shackles; restraints
- —光束luminous flux; pencil (of light); beam
- —束群lattice group
- —集束focusing (of light); convergence; gathering and bundling