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Jōyō kanji, Taught in grade 4

JLPT level: N3

918 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 7

Meaning: bundle, sheaf, ream, tie in bundles, govern, manage, control

Kunyomi: たば, たば.ねる, つか, つか.ねる

Onyomi: ソク

Composition: 木 口 日

束

Radical

Radical: 木

Reading: き

Meaning: tree

Strokes: 4

⽊

Examples

Examples with audio

約束する(やくそくする)   promise [v.t.]

結束する(けっそくする)   band together, unite

束縛する(そくばくする)   restrain, bind, shackle

束ねる(たばねる)   bundle [v.t.]

花束(はなたば)   bouquet

札束(さつたば)   roll of banknotes

*束の間(つかのま)   brief moment

Onyomi Examples

束 (ソク) lattice, counter for large bundles (e.g. 10 sheafs of rice, 200 sheets of calligraphy paper, 20 whistling arrows, 100 fish), handbreadth (unit for measuring the length of arrows)

束縛 (ソクバク) restraint, restriction, fetters, yoke, shackles, binding, confinement with rope

結束 (ケッソク) union, unity, solidarity, bundling, binding, tying, putting on (clothes, armour, etc.)

口約束 (クチヤクソク) verbal promise, one's word

Kunyomi Examples

束 (たば) bundle, bunch, sheaf

束ねる (たばねる) to tie up in a bundle (e.g. straw, hair, bills, letters), to bundle, to sheathe, to govern, to manage, to control, to administer, to fold (one's arms), to put together (one's hands)

鍵束 (かぎたば) bunch of keys

麦束 (むぎたば) wheat sheaf, stacked wheat

束ねる (たばねる) to tie up in a bundle (e.g. straw, hair, bills, letters), to bundle, to sheathe, to govern, to manage, to control, to administer, to fold (one's arms), to put together (one's hands)

束 (つか) strut, short vertical post, thickness (of a book minus the cover, a sheaf of paper, etc.), handbreadth, bundle

束ねる (たばねる) to tie up in a bundle (e.g. straw, hair, bills, letters), to bundle, to sheathe, to govern, to manage, to control, to administer, to fold (one's arms), to put together (one's hands)

不束 (ふつつか) inexperienced, incompetent, inept, incapable, careless

矢束 (やつか) arrow length, bundle of arrows

束ねる (たばねる) to tie up in a bundle (e.g. straw, hair, bills, letters), to bundle, to sheathe, to govern, to manage, to control, to administer, to fold (one's arms), to put together (one's hands)

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