閉じる
とじる
Meanings
- Ichidan verb, Transitive, Intransitive to close (e.g. book, eyes, meeting, etc.); to shut
Kanji
- 閉 shut. Read as とじる.
Example sentences
- 教科書を閉じて私の言うことを聞きなさい。
Listen to me with your textbooks closed. - 記念式典は閉会の辞で幕を閉じた。
The commemorative ceremony ended with the closing address. - 開けてと言うまで目を閉じていてくれないか。
Keep your eyes closed until I tell you to open them. - 異論がなければここで会を閉じることにしよう。
If there is no objection, we will close the meeting now. - ドアを閉じるとすぐに誰かがノックし始めた。
I had no sooner closed the door than somebody started knocking on it.
Common phrases
- 幕を閉じる (まくをとじる) to lower the curtain (at the end of a play)
- 生涯を閉じる (しょうがいをとじる) to die (of a person)
- 目を閉じる (めをとじる) to close one's eyes
- 口を閉じる
- 扉を閉じる
- 蓋を閉じる
- まぶたを閉じる
- 瞳を閉じる
- 足を閉じる
- 店を閉じる
- 殻を閉じる
- 弁が閉じる
- 画面を閉じる
- 目が閉じる
- 弁を閉じる
Related forms
- 閉ざす (とざす) to shut (transitive partner)
Words containing 閉じる
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