囚 – Kanji details

Keyword

prisoner

Info

Frequency	Top 1700-1800
Type	Jōyō ?
Kanken	Level Pre-2
Heisig	1094
Readings	とら (42%) しゅう (35%) めしう (22%)

Composed of

囗

closed box

人

person

Used in kanji (11 in total)

pile up

very old woman

???

hornwort

robe

old cotton

liquor

???

corpulent

???

life-giving influences of nature

Used in vocabulary (41 in total)

囚とらわれる

to be caught; to be captured; to be taken prisoner; to be seized with (fear, etc.); to be a slave to; to stick to

囚しゅう人じん

prisoner; convict

死し刑けい囚しゅう

criminal condemned to death; convict on death row

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Examples (34 in total)

もう過か去こには囚とらわれない。

I am no longer bound by the past.

人にん間げんは、どうしても見みえる部ぶ分ぶんに囚とらわれるからな。

Humans are inevitably bound by what they can see.

今いまはそんな感かん情じょうに囚とらわれている場ば合あいではない。

Now is not the time to be swayed by such emotions.