囚

音読おんよみ: シュウ

訓読くんよみ: none *

画数かくすう: 5

部首ぶしゅ: くにがまえ(囗)

Meaning

Prisoner / Captive / Confinement

  • 囚人しゅうじん — prisoner; inmate
  • 捕囚ほしゅう — captive; prisoner of war
  • 囚われるとらわれる — to be confined; to be held captive

※ 囚 is rarely used alone and appears almost exclusively in compound words.

The kanji shows a person enclosed within a boundary . The image clearly conveys the idea of someone confined, captured, or imprisoned.

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