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縛 — kanji meaning “truss”

truss, arrest, bind, tie, restrain

Meanings
truss, arrest, bind, tie, restrain
On'yomi
Kun'yomi
Strokes
16
School grade
8
JLPT (old scale)
Level 1
Newspaper frequency
#1764 of 2,500
Classical radical
120
Chinese reading
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Words with 縛

WordReadingMeaning
しばる shibaruto tie; to bind; to fasten
そくばく sokubakurestraint; restriction; fetters
かなしばり kanashibaribinding hand and foot
じゅばく jubakuspell (that restricts one's movements); binding spell
しばりくび shibarikubi(death by) hanging
しばり shibaribinding
きんばく kinbakubinding tightly; tight binding
ほばく hobakuarrest; apprehension; capture
じばく jibakubeing circumscribed by one's own words and actions
じじょうじばく jijoujibakubeing caught in one's own trap; being hoisted by one's own petard
いましめ imashimebonds; bondage; binding
しばりこむ shibarikomuto bind together

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