Moto 塞: Close; Shut; CoverKanji meaning, readings, and the words that use it
- On'yomi
- ソク、サイ
- Kun'yomi
- ふさ(ぐ)、とりで、み(ちる)
- Level
- Jōyō, secondary school
- Words
- 74 in the dictionary
Words that use the on'yomi (ソク・サイ)
- 心筋梗塞しんきんこうそくheart attack; myocardial infarction
- 梗塞こうそくstoppage; tightness
- 脳梗塞のうこうそくstroke (blocked blood vessel in brain); cerebral infarction
- 要塞ようさいfort; stronghold
- 閉塞へいそくblockage; blockade
- ウィリス動脈輪閉塞症ウィリスどうみゃくりんへいそくしょうocclusion in the circle of Willis
- ラクナ梗塞ラクナこうそくlacunar infarction
- 人間万事塞翁が馬にんげんばんじさいおうがうまinscrutable are the ways of heaven; fortune is unpredictable and changeable
- 偃塞えんそくdamming (e.g. a pond)
- 優婆塞うばそくupasaka (devout male lay follower of Buddhism)
- 充塞じゅうそくplug; full up
- 城塞じょうさいfortress; stronghold
- 堅塞固塁けんさいこるいimpregnable fortress; heavily guarded fort
- 堰塞えんそくdamming (e.g. a pond)
- 塞栓そくせんembolus; abnormal substance (i.e. air) circulating in the blood
- 塞栓症そくせんしょうembolism
- 塞源そくげんblockage of a source
- 塞翁が馬さいおうがうまthe future is unpredictable; inscrutable are the ways of heaven
- 山塞さんさいmountain stronghold
- 急性心筋梗塞きゅうせいしんきんこうそくacute myocardial infarction; AMI
- 慢性閉塞性呼吸器疾患まんせいへいそくせいこきゅうきしっかんchronic obstructive respiratory disease
- 慢性閉塞性肺疾患まんせいへいそくせいはいしっかんchronic obstructive pulmonary disease; COPD
- 河道閉塞かどうへいそくnatural damming (of a river due to landslide, etc.)
- 窒塞ちっそくblocked
- 肺塞栓はいそくせんpulmonary embolism; pulmonary thromboembolism
- 肺塞栓症はいそくせんしょうpulmonary embolism
- 脂肪塞栓症しぼうそくせんしょうfat embolism
- 脳塞栓のうそくせんcerebral embolism
- 脳硬塞のうこうそくstroke (blocked blood vessel in brain); cerebral infarction
- 腸閉塞ちょうへいそくintestinal obstruction
- 腸間膜血管閉塞症ちょうかんまくけっかんへいそくしょうmesenteric vascular occlusion
- 血栓塞栓症けっせんそくせんしょうthromboembolism
- 要塞化ようさいかfortifying; fortification
Words that use a kun'yomi
- 塞がるふさがるto be closed; to be blocked
- 塞ぐふさぐto stop up; to close up
- あいた口が塞がらぬあいたくちがふさがらぬsurprising; shocking
- あいた口も塞がらぬあいたくちもふさがらぬsurprising; shocking
- 口塞ぎくちふさぎprohibition of speaking; imposition of silence
- 場所塞ぎばしょふさぎobstruction
- 塞がりふさがりbeing closed; being blocked up
- 塞ぎ込むふさぎこむto mope; to brood
- 塞げるふさげるto close up; to block up
- 手が塞がるてがふさがるto be busy; to be tied up doing something
- 気が塞ぐきがふさぐto feel depressed
- 気分が塞ぐきぶんがふさぐto feel blue; to feel depressed
- 炉塞ぎろふさぎclosing of the winter hearth
- 穴を塞ぐあなをふさぐto fill a hole with earth
- 立ち塞がるたちふさがるto stand in the way; to bar someone's way
- 耳を塞ぐみみをふさぐto stop (plug) one's ears
Other readings
- 八方塞がりはっぽうふさがりall doors closed; blocked in every direction
- 塞き止めるせきとめるto dam up; to hold back
- 塞くせくto dam (up) (stream)
- 塞の神どうそじんtraveler's guardian deity (traveller)
- 塞爾維セルビアSerbia
- 抜本塞源ばっぽんそくげんeradication of (sources of) evil; laying the ax to the root of evil
- 方塞がりかたふたがりunlucky direction (in Onmyōdō; due to the presence of a god such as Ten'ichijin)
- 暗れ塞がるくれふたがるto be shrouded by darkness
- 栓塞ぜんそくembolus
- 涙塞き敢えずなみだせきあえずunable to fight back tears
- 立塞がるたちふさがるto stand in the way; to bar someone's way
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