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Kanji Detail for 壘 - "fort, base"

壘

  • Meaning

    壘 means "fort, base." Also associated with pile.

    1. Fort - A defensive structure.

    2. Base - A foundation; a platform.

    3. Pile - To stack; to heap.

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    • Verified meaning: fort, base
    • Jinmeiyō kanji — officially approved for use in Japanese given names
    • Also carries these associations: pile

    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

    fort; rampart; walls; base(ball)

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    rampart, military wall

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    rampart; base (in baseball); to build with stones, bricks etc

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    rampart; base (in baseball)

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

    軍壘: Camp walls. Also called 壁疊. | 鬱壘: A deity's name. (Fengsu Tong) "In high antiquity, there were two brothers Shen Tu and Yu Lei. They reviewed ghosts that didn't follow reason and fed them to tigers." Hence considered a deity for warding off evil. The door gods painted in old government offices were these.

  • Onyomi

    tip

    rai(ライ) ライ

    rui(ルイ) ルイ

    sui(スイ) スイ

  • Kunyomi

    tip

    toride(とりで) とりで

  • Strokes

    tip

    18 strokes

  • Radical

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    土 (tsuchi・tsuchihen・dohen)

  • Related Keywords

    fort base pile connect stack stronghold barricade bastion bulwark castle citadel defense earthwork embankment entrenchment foundation garrison heap rampart redoubt platform

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