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intercept

Stroke count: 14

Readings

On readingシャ

Kun readingさえぎ.る

Jōyō Grade 8KANJIDIC

Verbs with «遮»

Meanings

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
interrupt
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

to interrupt
to obstruct (a view, someone's way, etc.)
to block (light, wind, etc.)
to intercept
to cut off

Radicals and components

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Components

How it's built

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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

遮蔽しゃへい

遮へいしゃへい

遮蔽物しゃへいぶつ

交通遮断こうつうしゃだん

遮二無二しゃにむに

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

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

14 strokes

Practice Writing

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