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囚

Prisoner
Stroke count: 5

Readings

On readingシュウ
Kun readingとら.われる

Verbs with «囚»

囚われる

Meanings

  1. prisoner
  2. arrest
  3. capturedRtK
  4. catch
  5. criminal
  1. imprisonment
  2. captive

Radicals and components

Components
How it's built
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Mnemonic (RtK)

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pent in (囗) · person (人)

From "Remembering the Kanji" by James Heisig · Frame 1094

Compound words

彼は彼らに囚人を釈放するように命令した。
He ordered them to release the prisoners.tatoeba
彼が脱獄囚だなんて、私には思いもよらなかった。
It never occurred to me that he might be an escaped prisoner.tatoeba
逃走した囚人はまだ捕まっていない。
The prisoner who escaped is still at large.tatoeba
州知事は囚人達を自由の身にした。
The governor set the prisoners free.tatoeba

Real voices: how native speakers say it

These sentences were read aloud by real people — native Japanese speakers — for the open Mozilla Common Voice project. Listen to how a phrase sounds in real speech: the intonation, the pace, the way words run together. Two speakers mean two different people read it — compare them.

本能的動物は悪魔に囚われるということはない。
ほんのうてきどうぶつはあくまにとらわれるということはない。Instinctive animals are never held captive by the devil.

Recordings and sentences: Mozilla Common Voice, CC0

Stroke Order

5 strokes

Prisoner. A person 人 inside an enclosure 囗 — someone locked in.Also known as “Criminal”

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