閂

閂 (radical 169, 門+1, 9 strokes, cangjie input 日弓一 (ANM), four-corner 7710₇, composition ⿵門一)

1. bolt
2. latch
3. crossbar

• KangXi: page 1330, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41211
• Dae Jaweon: page 1834, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4282, character 3
• Unihan data for U+9582

Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 門 (“gate”) + 一 ― a crossbar (一)* over a gate (門); sealing it closed
*The character 一 means one, but is only used as a form component here.

閂

1. bolt; latch; crossbar
2. to bolt; to latch
3. (Cantonese, dialectal Hakka) to close; to switch off; to turn off

Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典)

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. gate bar

• Go-on: さん (san)
• Kan-on: さん (san)
• Kun: かんぬき (kannuki, 閂)^{←くわんぬき (kwannuki, historical)}

閂 (kannuki) a wooden crossbar used as a latch

/kwan no ki/ → /kwanːoki/ → /kwanːuki/ → /kanːuki/

Shift from 貫の木 (kan no ki, literally “1-kan (3.75-kilogram/8.267-pound) wood”)[1][2] or 関の木 (kan no ki, literally “wooden barrier”), possibly influenced by 貫 (nuki, “wooden beam used in joinery”).

The kanji spelling is jukujikun (熟字訓), borrowed from Chinese 閂.

• 貫木 (uncommon)

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) かんぬ​き [kàńnúꜜkì] (Nakadaka – [3])[1]
  • (Tokyo) かんぬき​ [kàńnúkíꜜ] (Odaka – [4])[1]
  • IPA^(key): [kã̠nːɯ̟ᵝkʲi]

閂 (hiragana かんぬき, rōmaji kannuki, historical hiragana くわんぬき)

1. a heavy, usually wooden, crossbar used to lock across double doors or gates of an entrance to a building, similar to a latch

   Synonym: 貫木 (kangi)

2. (sumo) a sumo grip in which one athlete wraps his arms around both of his opponent’s arms and squeezes them together to maneuver the opponent for a kimedashi or kimetaoshi, or to weaken the opponent’s grip on the mawashi; a type of armbar

閂 (hiragana かんぬき, rōmaji Kannuki, historical hiragana くわんぬき)

1. a surname