Kanji Detail for 檻 - "cage, railing"

檻

Non-Jōyō Kanji

Meaning

檻 means "cage, railing."
1. Cage - An enclosure; a pen.
2. Railing - A balustrade.
Four-character idioms with 檻
- 籠鳥檻猿ろうちょうかんえん denied freedom (of how to live one's life)
Dictionary Citations

The meaning above is based on the following sources:

KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

pen; corral; cell; jail

Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

threshold, door-sill

CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

banister; balustrade; cage for animal or prisoner; to transport caged prisoner on a cart

Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

threshold, door frame

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

A railing. Below the eaves of a porch or window, lattice is called 闌; with boards it is called 檻. | An enclosure. For confining birds and beasts, it is called 圈檻. A prison cart is called 檻車. | Mountain mulberry. Its timber can be used to make bows.
Onyomi

kan(カン)
Kunyomi

obashima(おばしま)

ori(おり)

tesuri(てすり)
Strokes

18 strokes
Radical

木 (ki・kihen)
Related Keywords

cage enclosure pen railing balustrade

動物を檻にいれてくれ。
Put the animals into the cage.
ライオンは檻の中です。
The lions are in the cage.
ライオンは檻の中にいる。
The lions are in the cage.
その動物は檻から出ようともがいた。
The animal struggled to get out of the cage.
檻に入れられた虎は盛んに尾を振った。
The caged tiger lashed its tail.
そのトラは檻の真ん中に寝そべっていた。
The tiger laid in the middle of the cage.
檻で飼育されると繁殖しない動物もいる。
Some animals will not breed when kept in cages.
そのライオンは檻の真ん中に寝そべっていた。
The lion lay in the middle of the cage.
檻の中で飼われると子どもを産まない動物もいる。
Some animals will not breed when kept in cages.
さっき、なかなか起きなかったのも、折檻して欲しかったからでしょう？
The reason you didn't wake up just now was because you wanted me to punish you, right?