漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People
錮: confinement, to tie
N1 (our estimate)16 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
金 carries the meaning · 固 is drawn in
16 strokes
One reading, and the words that use it
コko · on'yomi · in compounds
- 禁錮きんこimprisonment (without forced labour)
- 禁錮刑きんこけい(penalty of) imprisonment
- 無期禁錮むききんこlife imprisonment without work
Also read ふさぐ, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Dig deep for treasure! This radical represents the metals that form the backbone of our technology and the "gold" that has served as a global standard of value for centuries.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
固
Also built on harden (固)
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side錮 confinement · 固
vs銅 copper · 同In ChineseSimplified 锢 · traditional, as in Japanese · gù
Japan keeps the traditional form 錮; mainland China simplifies it to 锢.
- Simplified
- 锢 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 錮 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin gù most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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