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Cow House Jail 牢 ロウ かた.い ひとや Prison

Kanji
Onyomi ロウ
Kunyomi かた.い, ひとや
English prison, jail, hardness
JLPT Level 0
Jouyou Grade S+
Frequency 2472
Components 宀: shaped crown; katakana u radical (no. 40)
牛: cow
Traditional Form (none)
Keyword jail
Koohii Story 1 "For a cow used to free-grazing, being stuck in a house is equivalent to being in jail."
Koohii Story 2 "Looking at the kanji 家, keeping pigs in the house was normal. But, if you instead kept a cow in the house, you would be sent to jail."
RTK Index (new) 2325

Tags: jlpt.n0, shouldsuspend, grades+, kanjifreq2001-2500

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