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Kanji Detail for 堵 - "block"

堵

  • Meaning

    堵 means "block." Also associated with wall, dwelling.

    1. Wall - A fence or barrier made of earth.

    2. Dwelling - A residence; a home.

    3. Block - To prevent; to obstruct.

  • Four-character idioms with 堵

    • 本領安堵 ほんりょうあんど Listen recognition and guarantee, by the shogunate, of ownership of the inherited estate of a samurai who pledged allegiance to it (in the Kamakura and early Muromachi periods)

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    • Verified meaning: block
    • Jinmeiyō kanji — officially approved for use in Japanese given names
    • Also carries these associations: wall, dwelling

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    fence; railing; enclosure

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    wall; stop, prevent; stop up

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    to block up (a road, pipe etc); to stop up (a hole); (fig.) (of a person) choked up with anxiety or stress; wall (literary); (classifier for walls)

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    wall; to stop, to prevent, to block

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

    A wall. Anciently, building a wall of one zhang was called a board; five boards was called 堵. Now one wall is called one 堵. Being settled is called 安堵. See (Records of the Grand Historian). | To block is called 堵. Such as 防堵.

  • Onyomi

    tip

    to(ト) ト

  • Kunyomi

    tip

    kaki(かき) かき

  • Strokes

    tip

    12 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    土 (tsuchi・tsuchihen・dohen)

  • Related Keywords

    wall dwelling block home protection obstruction barricade barrier boundary dam enclosure fence guard hindrance house impediment obstacle residence

Sentences including 堵

  • Everyone's relieved.

  • We all breathed a sigh of relief.

  • She gave out a sigh of relief.

  • Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

  • Everybody in the room let out a sigh of relief.

  • Once outside, I gave a deep sigh of relief.

  • Informed of her safety, he breathed a sigh of relief.

  • Informed of their safety, the premier breathed a sigh of relief.

  • Informed of his safety, the manager breathed a sigh of relief.

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