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intercept
Stroke count: 14

Readings

On readingシャ
Kun readingさえぎ.る
JōyōGrade 8KANJIDIC

Meanings

  1. interceptRtK
    彼は私の行く手を遮った。He blocked my way.tatoeba
    その家は高い塀で人目から遮られている。The house is screened from view with a high fence.tatoeba
  2. interrupt
  3. obstruct
    大きな柱が湖水の眺めを遮っている。A large pillar obstructs the view of the lake.tatoeba
  1. to interrupt
  2. to obstruct (a view, someone's way, etc.)
  3. to block (light, wind, etc.)
  4. to intercept
  5. to cut off

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Mnemonic (RtK)

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commoner · caverns · cave · twenty · oven-fire (灬) · barbecue (灬) · road (辶)

From "Remembering the Kanji" by James Heisig · Frame 1276

Compound words

遮るさえぎる
to interrupt; to obstruct (a view, someone's way, etc.); to block (light, wind, etc.); to intercept; to cut off
遮断しゃだん
isolation; cut off; blockade; quarantine; interception
遮断機しゃだんき
(railway) crossing gate; barrier (at a toll booth, parking lot, etc.)
遮断器しゃだんき
circuit breaker
遮光しゃこう
shading
遮蔽しゃへい
shielding
遮へいしゃへい
shielding
遮蔽物しゃへいぶつ
shelter
交通遮断こうつうしゃだん
blockage
遮二無二しゃにむに
desperately
毘盧遮那びるしゃな
Vairocana (Buddha who symbolizes the entirety of the phenomenological world)
無遮大會むしゃだいえ
great equal assembly (quinquennial service of indiscriminatory almsgiving and preaching)
盧遮那仏るしゃなぶつ
Vairocana-Buddha
遮断するしゃだんする
to isolation
遮光器土偶しゃこうきどぐう
"goggle-eyed" clay figure
毘廬遮那仏びるしゃなぶつ
Vairocana-Buddha
毘盧遮那仏びるしゃなぶつ
Vairocana-Buddha
摩訶毘盧遮那まかびるしゃな
Mahavairocana (Buddha who symbolizes the entirety of the phenomenological world)
大毘盧遮那成仏神変加持経だいびるしゃなじょうぶつじんべんかじきょう
Mahavairocana Sutra

Additional Examples

がけくずれで交通は遮断された。
Traffic was blocked by a landslide.tatoeba

Stroke Order

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