閉じ込める

Japanese

Kanji in this term

Grade: 6

Grade: S
kun’yomi

Etymology

Compound of 閉じ (toji, closing, shutting, the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, continuative or stem form) of verb 閉じる tojiru, “to close, to shut”) + 込める (komeru, to put (into), to force (into)).[1][2]

Pronunciation

Verb

閉じ込める (transitive, ichidan conjugation, hiragana とじこめる, rōmaji tojikomeru, historical hiragana とぢこめる)

  1. To shut something inside, to imprison, to confine.

Conjugation

References

  1. 1988, 国語大辞典(新装版) (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
  2. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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