Illustration: Inside a Japanese apartment bedroom, a young adult in indoor clothes draws the sliding door almost completely shut while turning their body away from a family member outside. Their free hand makes a small declining gesture through the narrowing gap.

JLPT N1verbLevel estimated by Bebop

閉とじこもる

tojikomoru

to shut oneself away

Example sentences

彼かれは自室じしつに閉とじこもった。
He confined himself to his room.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source
一日中家いちにちじゅういえに閉とじこもるのは健康けんこうに良よくない。
It is not good for your health to shut yourself in all day.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source
こんな天気てんきのいい日ひに、家いえに閉とじこもりたい人ひとがいるのかよ。
Who wants to be cooped up indoors on a nice day like this?
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 閉

閉closed; shutOnヘイKunとじる・とざす・しめる

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