Kanji
N1 16 strokes Grade 8 freq #1764

truss, arrest, bind, tie, restrain

On'yomi (音読み)

Kun'yomi (訓読み)

Radical (部首)

silk ito

Others with this radical

On'yomi compounds (音読み)

restraint; restriction
spell (that restricts one's movements); binding spell
dynamic restraints
bound electron
creeping lettuce (Ixeris stolonifera)
tying up; restraint
binding firmly; restraining
binding tightly; tight binding
bandage; dressing
binding firmly; lashing

Kun'yomi words (訓読み)

to tie; to bind
(death by) hanging
binding hand and foot
binding of Acala; fast binding
to tie up (roughly; esp. to prevent escape); to bind
tortoise shell bondage; turtle shell bondage
bonds; bondage
to bind
binding
Daphne pseudomezereum (daphne shrub species)

Example sentences

He was bound hand and foot.

We tied him up so that he wouldn't be able to escape.

He liberated the people from bondage.