Jisho

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8 strokes
Radical:
mouth, opening
Parts:
Variants:
spell, curse, charm, malediction
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
2131 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 呪 【ジュ】 spell, curse, dharani, mantra
  • 呪術 【ジュジュツ】 magic, sorcery, incantation
  • 消災呪 【ショウサイジュ】 disaster-preventing incantation, disaster-preventing dharani
  • 明呪 【ミョウジュ】 mantra
  • 呪詛 【ジュソ】 curse, malediction, hex

Kun reading compounds

  • 呪う 【まじなう】 to pray that one avoids disaster or illness, to pray for harm or death to come upon someone, to curse, to charm, to conjure, to cast a spell (on someone), to treat illness (with a prayer)
  • 呪い 【のろい】 curse, spell, malediction
  • 呪い殺す 【のろいころす】 to curse (someone) to death, to put a deadly curse on (someone)
  • 呪い 【まじない】 charm, incantation, spell, curse
  • 呪う 【のろう】 to curse, to put a curse on, to detest intensely

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
zhou4
Korean:
ju

Spanish

  • maldición
  • hechizo
  • maldecir
  • hechizar
  • encantar

Portuguese

French

912 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1324 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
323 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
245 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
3443 Morohashi
764 New Nelson (John Haig)
2169 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
108 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
3d5.11 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-5 SKIP code
6601.0 Four corner code
1-28-86 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
546a Unicode hex code

16 strokes
Radical:
silk 糸 (糹)
Parts:
truss, arrest, bind, tie, restrain
Kun:
しば.る
On:
バク
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1764 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 縛 【バク】 tying up, restraint, restriction, arrest
  • 縛する 【バクスル】 to bind, to restrain
  • 呪縛 【ジュバク】 spell (that restricts one's movements), binding spell
  • 繋縛 【ケイバク】 constraint, restraint, restriction, binding

Kun reading compounds

  • 縛る 【しばる】 to tie, to bind, to fasten, to restrict (freedom), to tie down (with rules, regulations, etc.), to fetter

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
fu2
Korean:
bag

Spanish

  • atar
  • amarrar
  • arrestar
  • refrenar
  • contener

Portuguese

  • atar
  • prender
  • unir
  • amarrar
  • apertar

French

  • ficeler
  • lier
  • attacher
  • arrêts
  • contrainte
1701 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1983 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3593 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1361 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1643 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1448 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1541 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1569 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1555 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1779 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
949 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1282 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1388 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
27771X Morohashi
1405 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4567 New Nelson (John Haig)
1376 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1476 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1844 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2748 2001 Kanji
6a10.3 The Kanji Dictionary
1-6-10 SKIP code
2394.6 Four corner code
2394.2 Four corner code
1-39-91 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
7e1b Unicode hex code