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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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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
- —閉扉closure of a gate or door
- —閉合closure; closing
- —閉庁closing a government office (for the day); closing down a government office
- —閉殻closed shell; closed shell
- —尿閉urinary retention; anuria; ischuria; anuresis; retentio urinae
- —閉室closing a room; keeping a room closed; closing down an office; closing down a facility; closing a department
- —腸閉塞intestinal obstruction; ileus
- —閉回路closed circuit
- —閉経期menopause; menopausal
- —閉経後postmenopausal
- —閉世界closed world
- —開閉器switch
- —開閉機mechanical device for opening and closing (shutters, gates, etc.); (railway) crossing gate; barrier
- —開閉橋movable bridge
- —閉会式closing ceremony
- —閉鎖的insular; closed; unsociable; exclusive
- —閉塞感locked up feeling; cooped up feeling; feeling of entrapment; feeling of hopelessness; being in a bind
- —閉殻筋adductor muscle (of a bivalve)
- —閉鎖式closed circuit
- —閉区間closed interval
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