Lock character

鎖 means a lock or chain; in Chinese compounds such as 鎖鏈 and 封鎖 it can also mean linked restraint or sealing off. Traditional Chinese 鎖 corresponds to simplified 锁; in Japanese, it can be read くさり (“chain”).

Text symbol

What 鎖 means

A lock, a chain, or the act of locking something shut.

An appended entry in 說文解字, an early Chinese character dictionary, defines it as an iron door lock. A Japanese dictionary cites this sense in うつほ物語, a tale dated around 970–999.

Taiwan's Ministry of Education also records chain, restraint, closure, veiling, furrowed brows, and sewing stitches as senses.

Part of the collection

漢

Kanji (Japanese Characters)

Who writes 鎖

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What it means when someone sends it to you

4 readings

A lock or the act of locking.

Questions people ask

Why does 鎖 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.