Illustration: At a neighborhood swimming pool, a caretaker threads a heavy chain through the entrance gate and closes a padlock. Beyond the fence, the drained pool is dry, lane ropes are coiled on a trolley, and stacked changing-room baskets wait beside a removal van.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

閉へい鎖さ

heisa

closure, shutdown

Example sentences

彼かれらはその学校がっこうの閉鎖へいさについて討論とうろんした。
They debated closing the school.
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工場こうじょうの閉鎖へいさが決きまった。
They decided to shut down the factory.
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その鉱山こうざんは閉鎖へいさしている。
That mine has shut down.
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Kanji in 閉鎖

閉closed; shutOnヘイKunとじる・とざす・しめる
鎖chain; ironsOnサKunくさり・とざす

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