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

  • (Tokyo) じこめ [tòjíkóméꜜrù] (Nakadaka – [4])[2]
  • (Tokyo) じこめる [tòjíkómérú] (Heiban – [0])[2]
  • IPA(key): [to̞ʑiko̞me̞ɾɯ̟]

Verb

()()める • (tojikomeruとぢこめる (todikomeru)?transitive ichidan (stem ()() (tojikome), past ()()めた (tojikometa))

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

Conjugation

References

  1. ^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典(新装版) [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN