Entry
  1. Ichidan verb, Transitive verb

    to dam up; to hold back; to keep back; to bring to a halt; to intercept

    川の水をせき止めるために堤防が建設された。
    A bank was built to keep back the water of the river.
  2. to stem (an activity); to check (e.g. progress)

Also written 堰き止める【せきとめる】塞き止める【せきとめる】

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Characters in this word

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Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

stop, halt

Kun
と.まる-ど.まりと.める-と.める-ど.めとど.めるとど.めとど.まるや.めるや.む-や.むよ.す-さ.す-さ.し
On
Strokes
4
Taught
Grade 2
JLPT
N4
Frequency
310 of 2500
Radical
stop
WaniKani
Level 3

Built from

Used in names as

どめ

Dictionary and index codes (34)
CodeReference
3-2-2, 4-4-2SKIP code
2m2.2The Kanji Dictionary
2110.0Four corner code
1273deroo
6b62Unicode hex code
1-27-63JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
2429Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
2954New Nelson (John Haig)
2941New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3659Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1868Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2545Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
370Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
396Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
400A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
87Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
552Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
16253Morohashi
129A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
477Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
485Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
220sakade
202Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
143henshall3
94Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
415crowley
217Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
2.13busy_people
1127Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
376Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette)
zhi3Pinyin reading
jiKorean reading
n4JLPT level (KANJIDIC2)
3WaniKani level