Kanji Detail for 圉 - "prison, groom, raise, defend"

圉

Non-Jōyō Kanji

Meaning
圉 means "prison, groom, raise, defend."
1. Prison - A jail; a place to confine criminals.
2. Groom - A person who tends horses.
3. Raise - To keep and care for horses.
4. Defend - To protect; to stop.
Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:

KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

prison; horse tender; ostler

Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

stable, corral, enclosure; frontier, border

CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

horse stable; frontier

Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

stable, fence, corral; frontier, border

XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

A horse groom. Anciently called 圉人. What is now called 馬夫 (stable hand). | Border territory. Such as 聊固吾圉 (just securing our borders). Expression from (Zuo Zhuan). | Interchangeable with 敔 of 柷敔. See "敔" for details.
Onyomi

go(ご)

gyo(ぎょ)
Kunyomi

hitoya(ひとや)

umakai
Strokes

11 strokes
Radical

囗 (kunigamae)
Related Keywords
prison jail place confine criminals groom person tends horses raise keep care defend protect stop