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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
- —閉場closing (a place); closing down (e.g. a theatre)
- —閉業closing of a business; discontinuation; close of business (for the day)
- —閉路closed circuit
- —閉園closing of a park (e.g. theme park, botanical garden, etc.)
- —閉局closing (of a broadcasting station, post office, bureau, etc.)
- —閉架closed-stacks (e.g. in a library); closed shelf system
- —閉果indehiscent fruit
- —閉栓stopping; corking; capping; closing; disconnecting (e.g. gas supply)
- —閉体closed field
- —閉域closed (network, e.g.)
- —閉包closure
- —閉所confined place; closing (an institution, office, clinic, etc.)
- —閉眼closing one's eyes; passing away
- —鼻閉nasal obstruction
- —閉講closing a course (program, etc.); end of a course (program, etc.)
- —閉式closing of a ceremony
- —閉炉closing of the fireplace in a Zen temple (first day of the 2nd month)
- —閉創closing a surgical incision (by suture, etc.)
- —自閉social withdrawal (in schizophrenia); autosynnoia; social isolation; autism
- —閉脚closing the legs; keeping the legs together (in gymnastics)
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