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括 — kanji meaning “fasten”

fasten, tie up, arrest, constrict

Meanings
fasten, tie up, arrest, constrict
On'yomi
Kun'yomi
Strokes
9
School grade
8
JLPT (old scale)
Level 1
Newspaper frequency
#1026 of 2,500
Classical radical
64
Chinese reading
guā, kuò — Chinese character page

Words with 括

WordReadingMeaning
いっかつ ikkatsulumping together; summing up; bundle
ほうかつ houkatsuinclusion; complete coverage; comprehensiveness
そうかつ soukatsusummarization; summary; generalization
とうかつ toukatsuunification; bringing together; generalization
かっこ kakkobrackets; parentheses
いっかつばらい ikkatsubarailump-sum payment; paying the entire sum in one transaction
くくる kukuruto tie up; to tie together; to bind
くくり kukuriknot; tying
かつやくきん katsuyakukinsphincter (muscle); constrictor
がいかつ gaikatsusummary; generalization; generalisation
くびれ kubireconstriction; narrow part (in middle)
くびれる kubireruto be constricted; to tighten (in the middle); to narrow

Data: KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); JMdict (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.