EntryCommon
  1. Godan verb with 'u' ending, Transitive verb

    to enclose; to surround; to encircle; to fence; to wall in

    警官は、現場の近くをロープで囲った。
    The police roped off the street near the spot.
  2. to shelter (e.g. a criminal); to shield; to hide; to protect

  3. to keep (e.g. a mistress)

  4. to store (vegetables, fruit, etc.); to preserve

  5. to protect

    Archaic

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Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

surround, besiege, store, paling, enclosure, encircle, preserve, keep

Kun
かこ.むかこ.うかこ.い
On
Strokes
7
Taught
Grade 5
JLPT
N2
Frequency
771 of 2500
Radical
enclosure
WaniKani
Level 14

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Dictionary and index codes (32)
CodeReference
3-3-4SKIP code
3s4.2The Kanji Dictionary
6055.0Four corner code
1955deroo
56f2Unicode hex code
1-16-47JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
1032Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
945New Nelson (John Haig)
3069New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3807Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1949Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2643Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1807Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1948Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
945A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
501AJapanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
803Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
4722Morohashi
422A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1194Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1257Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
343sakade
423Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
446henshall3
474Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1062Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
340Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1825Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette)
wei2Pinyin reading
wiKorean reading
n2JLPT level (KANJIDIC2)
14WaniKani level