盾 — kanji meaning “shield”
盾
shield, escutcheon, pretext
- Meanings
- shield, escutcheon, pretext
- On'yomi
- ジュン (jun)
- Kun'yomi
- たて
- Strokes
- 9
- School grade
- 8
- JLPT (old scale)
- Level 1
- Newspaper frequency
- #1476 of 2,500
- Classical radical
- 109
- Chinese reading
- dùn, shǔn — Chinese character page
Words with 盾
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 矛盾 | むじゅん mujun | contradiction; inconsistency |
| 後ろ盾 | うしろだて ushirodate | backing; support; backer |
| 自己矛盾 | じこむじゅん jikomujun | self-contradiction; paradox; antinomy |
| 矛盾語法 | むじゅんごほう mujungohou | oxymoron |
| 矛盾撞着 | むじゅんどうちゃく mujundouchaku | self-contradiction |
| 前後矛盾 | ぜんごむじゅん zengomujun | self-contradiction; self-inconsistency |
| 撞着矛盾 | どうちゃくむじゅん douchakumujun | self-contradiction |
| 相矛盾 | あいむじゅん aimujun | mutually contradictory |
| 形容矛盾 | けいようむじゅん keiyoumujun | contradictio in adjecto; contradiction between an adjective and the noun it modifies (wooden iron, hot ice, etc.) |
| 人間の盾 | にんげんのたて ningennotate | human shield |
| 論理矛盾 | ろんりむじゅん ronrimujun | logical inconsistency; logical contradiction |
| 矛盾原理 | むじゅんげんり mujungenri | principle of contradiction; law of contradiction |
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