The kanji 囚: meaning, readings and stroke order

囚

Meaning: prisoner
On reading: シュウ shuu
Kun reading: —
Strokes: 5
Radical: 囗 enclosure
Level: Level 9 · senior high school

Stroke order

Meaning in other languages

Vietnamese: tù nhân, giam giữ (tù)
Japanese: つかまってろうやにいるひと。
Korean: 죄수, 갇히다 (수)
Chinese: 囚犯、囚禁

Readings, words and example sentences

シュウ shuu · on reading · less common

囚しゅう人じん
prisoner
囚しゅう人じんの出てくる小説です。
It's a novel with a prisoner in it.

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Readings, radicals: Kanjium, KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); strokes: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); Korean, simplified forms: Unicode Unihan. Meanings, sentences: Dino Kids (CC0). See Licences.