漢字Kanji · in Structures & Home
閉: closed, shut
JLPT N311 strokesGrade 6Your ink: 白 Not met
門 carries the meaning · 才 is drawn in
11 strokes
Five readings, and the words that use each
ヘイhei · on'yomi · in compounds
- 閉鎖的なへいさてきなunsociable, closed
- 開閉するかいへいするopen and close
- 閉会するへいかいするclose a meeting
- 閉店するへいてんするclose shop
とじるtojiru · kun'yomi · on its own
- 閉じるとじるclose, end, shut [v.t.]
とざすtozasu · kun'yomi
- 閉ざすとざすshut, be filled with anxiety [v.t.]
しめるshimeru · kun'yomi
- 閉めるしめるclose [v.t.]
しまるshimaru · kun'yomi
- 閉まるしまるclose [v.i.]
Also read たてる, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Ideogrammic compound (會意)門 door + 材 material; timber
Source: Wiktionary, 閉 (rev. 93450709), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Gate radical + a bar or someone inside = the act of pulling the doors together and barring them for the night.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
才
Also built on genius (才)
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side閉 closed · 才
vs問 question · 口In ChineseSimplified 闭 · traditional, as in Japanese · bì
Japan keeps the traditional form 閉; mainland China simplifies it to 闭.
- Simplified
- 闭 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 閉 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin bì 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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