What 錮 means
It means plugging a hole with metal, then confining.
An early Chinese character dictionary, 說文解字, from the Han dynasty (an early imperial period), glosses 錮 as 鑄塞: casting metal to plug a hole. Its form pairs 金 (“metal”) with 固 (“firm”).
That repair sense broadened to closing, forbidding, and imprisonment; Japanese 禁錮 is a formal compound for imprisonment.
Formal and specialized; chiefly seen in legal or historical compounds.
In Japanese, 錮 alone sounds formal or historical, not conversational.
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Questions people ask
1Why does 錮 show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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