塞
塞 — saek, sae
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 막힐 색, 변방 새
- Romanization
- saek, sae
- English
- stop up, block, seal, cork; pass, frontier; fortress
- Mandarin
- sāi
- Japanese on'yomi
- サイ, ソク
- Japanese kun'yomi
- ふさ.ぐ とりで み.ちる
- Japanese usage
- Jōyō kanji
- School grade
- Secondary (Jōyō)
- Strokes
- 13
- Radical
- 土 (32, 10 residual)
- Unicode
- U+585E
How 塞 was formed
Traditional analysis treats 塞 as a ideographic compound involving 宀, 工, 廾.
Korean example words with 塞
- 적새敵塞 Korean gloss: 적의 요새
- 비색否塞 Korean gloss: 운수가 꽉 막힘
- 저색沮塞 Korean gloss: 막아서 못하게 함
- 적새賊塞 Korean gloss: 도적이나 적군의 성과 요새
- 성새城塞 Korean gloss: 성과 요새를 아울러 이르는 말
- 핍색逼塞 Korean gloss: 형세가 꽉 막힘. 또는 그리하여 몹시 군색함
- 기색氣塞 Korean gloss: 심한 흥분이나 충격으로 호흡이 일시적으로 멎음. 또는 그런 상태
- 경색梗塞 Korean gloss: 혈액 속에 떠다니는 혈전(血栓) 따위의 물질이 혈관을 막는 일. 이로 인하여 혈액 순환이 잘되지 않아 영양 공급이 중단되며 그
- 돈색하다頓塞 Korean gloss: 갑자기 막히다
- 어색스럽다語塞 Korean gloss: 어색한 데가 있다
- 궁색스럽다窮塞 Korean gloss: 보기에 궁색한 데가 있다
- 방색하다防塞 Korean gloss: 무엇을 하지 못하게 막다
Definitions from Woorimalsam, National Institute of Korean Language (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR)
Japanese words with 塞
- 閉塞へいそく blockage; blockade; blocking up
- 心筋梗塞しんきんこうそく heart attack; myocardial infarction
- 要塞ようさい fort; stronghold; fortification
- 脳梗塞のうこうそく cerebral infarction; (ischemic) stroke
- 梗塞こうそく stoppage; blocking; infarction
- 塞ぐふさぐ to stop up; to close up; to block (up)
- 塞がるふさがる to be closed; to be blocked; to be healed (e.g. wound)
- 塞栓そくせん embolus; abnormal substance (i.e. air) circulating in the blood
- 充塞じゅうそく plug; full up; being filled
- 城塞じょうさい fortress; stronghold; citadel
- 窒塞ちっそく blocked
- 塞くせく to dam up (a stream); to dam
Other hanja read “색”
Other hanja with radical 土
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