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Kanji Detail for 錠 - "lock, tablet, secure"
錠
- Meaning
錠 means "lock, tablet, secure."
Tablet - Medicine formed into a fixed shape.
Lock - Metal fitting for securing doors.
Pill - Small medicine; also a counter for them.
Offering stand - A legged vessel for presenting food offerings.
Ingot - Metal like gold or silver solidified into a shape; formerly used as currency.
- Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
lock; fetters; shackles
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
spindle, slab, cake, tablet
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
(weaving) spindle; ingot; pressed cake of medicine etc; classifier for: gold and silver ingots, ink sticks
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
spindle, ingot; tablet, slab
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
A vessel for serving cooked food. A 豆 with feet. | In former times, pure gold or silver was used as currency. Each piece had a fixed weight rate such as ten or five liang, all called 錠. Before Yuan Dynasty, all were written as 鋌. | Tin foil made into spirit money is colloquially also called 錠. | Spindles used in spinning yarn are commonly written as 錠.
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