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閉 kanji
closed, shut
- JLPT level
- N3 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 11
- School grade
- Grade 6 (elementary school)
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On readings
ヘイ
Kun readings
とじるとざすしめるしまるたてる
Variant forms
閇Words with 閉
LevelWord & meaningActions
- N2閉会Popularclosure (of a ceremony, event, meeting, etc.)
- N1閉口Popularto be stumped; to be at a loss; to be at one's wits' end; to be nonplussed; to be fed up; to be tired (of); to be unable to bear; to be annoyed
- N1閉鎖Popularclosing; closure; shutdown; lockout
- —開閉Popularopening and shutting; opening and closing
- —閉塞Popularblockage; blockade; blocking up; stoppage; obstruction; occlusion
- —閉店Popularclosing up shop (for the day); stopping business; going out of business
- —閉幕Popularfalling of the curtain; (coming to an) end; close
- —幽閉Popularconfinement; imprisonment; incarceration
- —自閉症Popularautism
- —閉館closing (for the day; of a library, museum, cinema, etc.); closing down (of a library, museum, cinema, etc.)
- —閉経menopause
- —閉端closed end; bocca chiusa; end of wind instrument
- —密閉shutting tightly; making airtight; sealing hermetically
- —閉校closing a school (for the day); closing a school (permanently); shutting down a school
- —閉山ending the climbing season; closure of a mountain to climbers; closing a mine; discontinuation of mining
- —閉止stoppage
- —閉廷adjourning court
- —閉居shutting oneself up at home
- —閉門closing of a gate; (Edo-period) house confinement
- —閉院closing down a hospital, institution, temple, etc.; shutting down; closing a hospital, institution, temple, etc. (for the day); adjourning a session of the Imperial Diet
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