塞
block; close; shut; cover; obstruct
13 strokes. Jōyō kanji, taught in secondary school.
Readings
- サイ (on reading): 要塞 (ようさい) fort; 城塞 (じょうさい) fortress
- ソク (on reading): 閉塞 (へいそく) blockage; 脳梗塞 (のうこうそく) cerebral infarction
- ふさぐ (kun reading): 塞ぐ (ふさぐ) to stop up; 塞がる (ふさがる) to be closed
- とりで (kun reading)
- みちる (kun reading)
Components
Words using 塞
- 要塞 (ようさい) fort
- 城塞 (じょうさい) fortress
- 要塞都市 (ようさいとし) fortified city
- 塞翁が馬 (さいおうがうま) the future is unpredictable
- 塞外 (さいがい) outside a fort
- 閉塞 (へいそく) blockage
- 脳梗塞 (のうこうそく) cerebral infarction
- 心筋梗塞 (しんきんこうそく) heart attack
- 逼塞 (ひっそく) being trapped (and having no way out)
- 塞栓 (そくせん) embolus
- 塞ぐ (ふさぐ) to stop up
- 塞がる (ふさがる) to be closed
- 口塞ぎ (くちふさぎ) prohibition of speaking
- 場所塞ぎ (ばしょふさぎ) obstruction
- 穴を塞ぐ (あなをふさぐ) to fill a hole with earth
- 塞く (せく) to dam up (a stream)
- 涙塞き敢えず (なみだせきあえず) unable to fight back tears
- 暗れ塞がる (くれふたがる) to be shrouded by darkness
- 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)
70 words in all.