絞

wring; strangle; constrict

12 strokes. Jōyō kanji, taught in secondary school. Newspaper frequency rank 1288.

Readings

• しぼる (kun reading): 絞る (しぼる) to wring (towel, rag); 絞り (しぼり) shibori
• しめる (kun reading): 絞める (しめる) to strangle; 絞め殺す (しめころす) to strangle to death
• コウ (on reading): 絞首刑 (こうしゅけい) death by hanging; 絞殺 (こうさつ) strangling (to death)
• しまる (kun reading): 絞まる (しまる) to be strangled; 首が絞まる (くびがしまる) to have one's neck wrung

Components

• 糸
• 交
• 亠 radical lid
• 小 radical small
• 幺 radical short thread
• 父 radical father
• 糸 radical thread

Words using 絞

• 絞る (しぼる) to wring (towel, rag)
• 絞り (しぼり) shibori
• 絞り込む (しぼりこむ) to squeeze
• 振り絞る (ふりしぼる) to use to the full (one's voice, energy, etc.)
• 絞り出す (しぼりだす) to squeeze out
• 絞める (しめる) to strangle
• 絞め殺す (しめころす) to strangle to death
• 絞め技 (しめわざ) shime-waza (judo stranglehold)
• 首を絞める (くびをしめる) to wring the neck
• 自分の首を絞める (じぶんのくびをしめる) to cut one's own throat
• 絞首刑 (こうしゅけい) death by hanging
• 絞殺 (こうさつ) strangling (to death)
• 絞首台 (こうしゅだい) gallows
• 絞扼 (こうやく) strangulation
• 絞首 (こうしゅ) hanging
• 絞まる (しまる) to be strangled
• 首が絞まる (くびがしまる) to have one's neck wrung

53 words in all.

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