to close / to stop up / to shut / to obstruct

= + : The way out of the space station's bathroom is blocked! Brunhilde shut the door and is unable to open it again. Fortunately, as she uses her secret X-ray super ability, she discovers a secret door in the floor.

閉 character breakdown

ability / talent / sb of a certain type / a capable individual / then and only then / just now / (before an expression of quantity) only

= + + 丿 : Mnemonic symbol: from "ability / talent", the special ability of X-ray vision.

The King of Chu (c) has been bitten by a X-ray tube and has gained the special ability (才) of X-ray vision. In the airplane's kitchen (ai2), he holds a banana (丿) in each hand; through his x-ray vision ability, he is able to see that in one of them there's a crowbar (亅) hidden, in the other one a flute (一).
(variant of 才[cai2]) just now / (before an expression of quantity) only
surname Men
gate / door / CL:扇[shan4] / gateway / doorway / CL:個|个[ge4] / opening / valve / switch / way to do something / knack / family / house / (religious) sect / school (of thought) / class / category / phylum or division (taxonomy) / classifier for large guns / classifier for lessons, subjects, branches of technology / (suffix) -gate (i.e. scandal; derived from Watergate)

Mahatma Gandhi wants his revenge on the Chinese emperor! Like a spider he sits in the upper left corner of the encampment's kitchen, ready to strike with the trap door he installed in the floor.

Characters with 閉 as component

閉 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 閉

to close / to shut
to put in detention (a soldier, a pupil)
to close the passes / to seal off the country / seclusion (monastic practice, e.g. of Chan Buddhists)
see 吃閉門羹|吃闭门羹[chi1 bi4 men2 geng1]
shut oneself up and ponder over one's mistakes
close the country to international intercourse
to close the passes and seal off the country / to close a country to exclude foreign contact
to close the door in one's face (idiom)
closed set (math.)
opening and closing ceremonies
lit. to shut oneself away and build a cart (idiom) / fig. to work on a project in isolation, without caring for outside realities
lit. lock the door and search for the right word (idiom); fig. the serious hard work of writing

Sentences with 閉

閉 currently does not appear in any sentence.