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錮 means 'tie'

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Strokes : 16    JLPT: N1    Usefulness: 5    Study set: 5-50    Grade: 8   Intermediate lesson: -    Beginner lesson: -   Begins 0 words   Used in 3 words   Not used as a component
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Additional readings
Kun    ふさぐ to tie, to stop up, to close up
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Take a walk on the dark side with 錮! Find out how to discuss the length and severity of prison sentences (possibly including hard labor) and punishments in the past that involved exile to remote islands. Along the way, learn several words for "imprisonment" and "judicial sentence," and read about spiral shells, tinkering with molten metal, and political unrest in ancient China.
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⿰  金 gold  固 hard  
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In the most useful 10,000 words in Japanese, 錮 is used 1 time, read 1 way.
Across all words in Japanese, 錮 is used 3 times, read 1 way.
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imprisonment; confinement
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錮
コ    tie   
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固
コ   かたい hard   かたまる to harden   かためる to make hard   
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古
コ   ふるい old   -ふるす to grow old   
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十
ジュウ   ジッ   と    とお ten   
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一
イチ   イツ   ひとつ    ひと- one   
丨
stick   
口
コウ   ク   くち mouth   
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囗
box, enclosure   
金
キン   コン   かね gold; money   
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ジン   ニン   ひと man   
丷
eight
王
オウ    king   
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土
ド   ト   ground; earth   つち ground, earth, soil   
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