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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
- —閉門蟄居house arrest; being placed in confinement at home
- —自閉症児autistic child
- —閉店時間closing hours (of a store, restaurant, etc.)
- —半閉鎖式semiclosed system
- —代数閉体algebraically closed field
- —閉会の辞closing address
- —閉ループclosed-loop
- —閉域接続closed user group service
- —閉塞状態blocked state; closed state
- —工場閉鎖factory closure; factory shutdown; lockout (e.g. during industrial dispute)
- —閉所恐怖claustrophobia; fear of confined spaces
- —閉館時間closing time (library, museum, etc.)
- —河道閉塞natural damming (of a river due to landslide, etc.)
- —早期閉経premature menopause; early menopause; premature ovarian failure; POF
- —政府閉鎖government shutdown
- —膣閉鎖症vaginal atresia
- —羞花閉月the charms of a uniquely beautiful woman; (so beautiful that) flowers are abashed and the moon hides
- —閉鎖病棟closed ward; locked ward
- —一時閉鎖temporary closure
- —閉鎖動脈obturator artery
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