閉じる

とじる · tojiru · JLPT N3 · verb-ichidan

to close

📕🚪 閉 = 門 gate + 才 a bar across it: the gate is shut

The kanji puts a bolt (才) inside a gate (門), so it means closed. Sound hook: tojiru sounds like toe-jeer-oo, said as you shut a book on a heckler. You use it to close a book, your eyes or an umbrella.

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