Kanji
N1 16 strokes Grade 8 freq #1712

congeal, freeze, stiff, be absorbed in

On'yomi (音読み)

Kun'yomi (訓読み)

Radical (部首)

ice nisui

Others with this radical

On'yomi compounds (音読み)

condensation (of ideas, emotions, etc.); concentration
coagulation; freezing
stare; gaze
agglomeration; clumping together

Kun'yomi words (訓読み)

elaborate; exquisite
to become stiff (of muscles)
muscle stiffness (esp. in shoulders)
to concentrate; to focus on
tendency to become totally absorbed in something; monomania

Example sentences

He took to fishing after retirement.

When he begins to do anything, he devotes himself to it.

I have a lump in my breast.

Alice felt something hard melt in her heart.