閉

See also: 閇 and 闭

Translingual

Han character

閉 (Kangxi radical 169, 門+3, 11 strokes, cangjie input 日弓木竹 (ANDH), four-corner 7724₇, composition ⿵門才)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1330, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41222
• Dae Jaweon: page 1835, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4283, character 8
• Unihan data for U+9589

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Chinese

trad.		閉
simp.		闭
alternative forms		閇

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (閉) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
閉	*piːds, *piːd
閇	*piːds

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 閉

1. to shut; to close
2. to obstruct; to block up

Compounds

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Japanese

Kanji

閉

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. close, shut

Readings

• Go-on: はい (hai)
• Kan-on: へい (hei, Jōyō)
• On: へつ (hetsu)
• Kun: とじる (tojiru, 閉じる, Jōyō)^{←とぢる (todiru, 閉ぢる, historical)}; とざす (tozasu, 閉ざす, Jōyō); しめる (shimeru, 閉める, Jōyō); しまる (shimaru, 閉まる, Jōyō)

Antonyms

• (to shut, close): 開

Derived terms

• 閉(と)じる (tojiru)
• 閉(し)める (shimeru)

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Korean

Hanja

閉 • (pye, byeol) (hangeul 폐, 별, revised pye, byeol, McCune–Reischauer p'ye, pyŏl, Yale phyey, pyel)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 閉 (bế, bấy, bé)

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