Translation guide
The state of being restricted to a place, or the act of restricting someone. In Japanese, the expression depends on whether it's medical, punitive, self-imposed, or metaphorical.
Being confined for health reasons, such as bed rest, hospitalization, or quarantine.
Rest, quiet, confinement for medical reasons. Often used in phrases like 安静にする (to rest).
The doctor told me to rest.
Isolation, quarantine. Used for infectious disease confinement.
People suspected of infection are quarantined.
Hospitalization. Implies confinement in a hospital.
He was hospitalized for a week.
Confinement as punishment or legal detention.
Confinement, imprisonment, false imprisonment. Can be legal or illegal.
He was sued for false imprisonment.
Detention, custody (short-term). Often used in legal contexts.
Imprisonment, putting someone in prison.
Confinement, imprisonment (often in a room or house). Historical or literary nuance.
Staying inside voluntarily, often for a long period.
Social withdrawal, shutting oneself in. A common term for people who rarely leave their homes.
He has been a shut-in for years.
To shut oneself up, to stay indoors. Verb form.
Confinement to one's home (historical punishment or voluntary seclusion). Rare.
The period after giving birth when a mother rests and recovers.
Feeling trapped by circumstances, rules, or mental state.
Directly translating 'confinement' as 監禁 may sound overly criminal or severe. Choose the word based on context: medical, legal, voluntary, etc.
監禁 is general confinement/imprisonment, often illegal. 拘留 is short-term police detention. 投獄 is the act of putting someone in prison.
容疑者は警察に拘留されている。
The suspect is in police custody.
彼は終身投獄された。
He was imprisoned for life.
彼は城に幽閉された。
He was confined in the castle.
He shut himself in his room and read books.
He was ordered into house confinement.
Please rest well until your postpartum confinement ends.
彼女は束縛されるのが嫌いだ。
She hates being tied down.