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鎖 kanji
chain, irons, connection
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 18
- School grade
- Secondary school
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On readings
サ
Kun readings
くさりとざす
Variant forms
鏁Words with 鎖
LevelWord & meaningActions
- N1封鎖Popularblockade; lockdown; sealing off (an area); freezing (funds)
- N1閉鎖Popularclosing; closure; shutdown; lockout
- —鎖国Popularnational isolation; closing the country (to foreigners); sakoku; policy of national isolation enacted by the Tokugawa shogunate
- —連鎖Popularchain; series; connection; linkage
- —経済封鎖Populareconomic blockade; embargo
- —鎖骨collarbone; clavicle
- —鎖状chainlike
- —鉄鎖iron chain
- —側鎖side chain
- —測鎖measuring chain
- —鎖線chain line; dot-dash line
- —鎖陰gynatresia
- —直鎖straight-chain; open-chain; acyclic; linear
- —糖鎖glycan; sugar chain
- —主鎖principal chain; main chain; backbone chain
- —胸鎖sternoclavicular; sternocleidal
- —鎖すto shut; to close; to lock; to fasten
- —鎖肛imperforate anus; anal atresia; aproctia
- —鎖港closure of ports; excluding foreign ships from ports
- —再封鎖reblocking; refreeze