噤 — 16 strokes ／ Radical「口」
道1University / general (hardest) ／ 16 strokes ／ Radical「口」
- On
- キン
- Kun
- つぐ.む
- Meaning
- to shut one's mouth
Origin
Mouth 口 with 禁 "to forbid" as phonetic: to close the mouth and say nothing.
Stroke order
Compounds
- 噤むつぐむ
to shut (one's mouth)
- 口を噤むくちをつぐむ
to hold one's tongue
Example
彼はそれきり口を噤んでしまった。
After that they held their tongue.
Stroke data from: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)