Japanese Kanji
括katsu
fasten · tie up · arrest
Secondary school · JLPT N1 · 9 strokes
Fasten, tie up, arrest, constrict.
括 is part of the secondary school jōyō kanji — the full set of characters used in everyday Japanese. In the JLPT proficiency test it appears at N1 (advanced) level. With 9 strokes, this character appears in numerous compound words throughout written Japanese.
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