— packed, close, pressed, reprove, rebuke, blame

  • JLPT N2
  • 13 strokes
  • Secondary (Jōyō)
  • Radical 言
  • #1020 most frequent

Readings

On'yomi
キツキチ
Kun'yomi
つ.めるつ.め-づ.めつ.まるつ.む

Example words

  • 缶詰めかんづめpacking (in cans); canning; canned goods; tin can
  • 見詰めるみつめるto stare at; to gaze at; to look hard at; to watch intently; to fix one's eyes on
  • 詰まるつまる(1) to be blocked; to be packed (2) to hit the ball near the handle of the bat (baseball)
  • 瓶詰めびんづめbottling; bottled
  • 詰まりつまり(1) that is to say; that is; in other words; I mean (2) in short; in brief; to sum up; ultimately; in the end; in the long run; when all is said and done; what it all comes down to; when you get right down to it (3) clogging; obstruction; stuffing; (degree of) blockage (4) shrinkage (5) end; conclusion (6) dead end; corner (7) distress; being at the end of one's rope
  • 詰らないつまらない(1) dull; uninteresting; boring; tedious (2) insignificant; unimportant; trifling; trivial; worthless (3) absurd; foolish; silly (4) useless; pointless; disappointing
  • 詰めるつめる(1) to stuff into; to jam; to cram; to pack; to fill; to plug; to stop up (2) to shorten; to move closer together (3) to reduce (spending); to conserve (4) to focus intently on; to strain oneself to do (5) to work out (details) (6) to be on duty; to be stationed (7) to corner (esp. an opponent's king in shogi); to trap; to checkmate (8) to cut off (one's finger as an act of apology); to jam (one's finger in a door, etc.) (9) to continue ...; to keep doing ... without a break (10) to do ... completely; to do ... thoroughly (11) to force someone into a difficult situation by ...
  • 詰るなじるto rebuke; to scold; to tell off