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Dictionary: “籠る”

籠る

こもる

to shut oneself in (e.g. one's room); to be confined in; to seclude oneself; to hide away; to stay inside (one's shell)

Example sentence

He often shuts himself up in the study and writes things like this.

Kanji details

籠

・basket

・devote oneself

・seclude oneself

・cage

・coop

・implied

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to fill with (emotion, enthusiasm, power, etc.);to imbue with;to infuse with

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to fill a space (of a gas, smell, etc.);to be heavy with (e.g. smoke);to be stuffy;to be dense

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to be muffled (e.g. voice)

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to hold (a castle, fortress, etc.)

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to confine oneself in a temple to pray