Illustration: Inside a small storage room behind a Japanese workshop, an adult pulls urgently at a locked mesh door. Their bag and coat are still on, and their body leans toward the exit. On the corridor side, another adult has just fastened an external padlock and is withdrawing the key, keeping it beyond reach.

JLPT N1suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

監かん禁きん

kankin

to confine, to imprison

Example sentences

  1. 王子おうじはその城しろに３年間ねんかん監禁かんきんされた。

    The prince was confined in the castle for three years.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 反逆者はんぎゃくしゃはついに捕つかまり刑務所けいむしょに監禁かんきんされた。

    The rebel was ultimately captured and confined to prison.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. これに激怒げきどした守旧派しゅきゅうはの兵士達へいしたちは倉庫係そうこがかりを暴行ぼうこうした後のち、倉庫そうこに監禁かんきんした。

    This made soldiers of the Conservative Party furious, and they assaulted the warehouse keepers, shutting them in the warehouse.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 監禁

  • 監oversee; officialOnカン
  • 禁prohibition; banOnキン

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