音読み: キツ
訓読み: つめる, つまる, つむ
画数: 13
部首: 言（ごんべん）
Meaning
Pack / Stuff / Cram / Rebuke
- 詰める — to pack / stuff / cram
- 詰問 — cross-examination / questioning
- 難詰 — severe rebuke
- 缶詰 — canned food / being confined
- 詰碁 — go-problem (life-and-death puzzle in Go)
- 詰将棋 — shogi mating problem
- 腸詰 — sausage
The kanji 詰 combines the 言 radical (speech/words) with the phonetic 吉 (good fortune). Its meanings range from “packing tightly” to “pressing with words,” as in interrogation or rebuke.
Think of 固い — firm, solid. 詰 takes speech and makes it solid and packed. Whether stuffing things into a box or pressing someone with words, it carries that sense of being tightly packed.
Forms
詰問 — questioning / interrogation