鎖

See also 锁

Translingual

Han character

鎖 (radical 167 金+10, 18 strokes, cangjie input 金火月金 (CFBC), four-corner 8918₆)

1. lock, padlock
2. shackles, chains

References

• KangXi: page 1317, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40708
• Dae Jaweon: page 1817, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4240, character 6
• Unihan data for U+9396

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Cantonese

Hanzi

鎖 (simplified 锁, Yale so2)

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Japanese

Kanji

鎖 (common “Jōyō” kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 鏁)

Readings

• On: さ (sa)
• Kun: くさり (kusari), とざす (鎖す, tozasu)

Compounds

• 鎖国 (さこく, sakoku): national isolationism; closed borders
• 連鎖 (れんさ, rensa) a chain

Noun

鎖 (hiragana くさり, romaji kusari)

1. A chain.

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Korean

Hanja

鎖 (hangeul 쇄, revised swae, McCune-Reischauer swae, Yale sway)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

鎖 (simplified 锁, pinyin suǒ (suo3), Wade-Giles so³)

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Vietnamese

Han character

鎖 (tỏa, toả, khoá, soã, tuả, xoã)