牢

Meaning

牢 centers on confinement and restraint: a prison or jail that holds someone in, and by extension the hardness or firmness of being tightly secured.

• 牢ろう

  prison; jail; gaol

• 牢獄ろうごく

  prison; jail; gaol

• 牢屋ろうや

  jail; gaol; jailhouse

• 堅牢けんろう

  solid; strong; sturdy; durable; stout

• 牢記ろうき

  keeping in mind; taking note of; remembering; taking to heart

• 座敷牢ざしきろう

  room for confining criminals or lunatics (Edo period)

• 亡羊補牢ぼうようほろう

  locking the barn door after the horse has bolted; doing something too late; mending the pen after the sheep are lost

• 入牢にゅうろう

  imprisonment

• 土牢つちろう

  dungeon; underground prison

• 地下牢ちかろう

  dungeon

• 地牢じろう

  dungeon; underground prison

• 堅牢堅固けんろうけんご

  firm and solid; stout and durable

• 女牢おんなろう

  jail for women (Edo period)

• 岩牢いわろう

  cave prison; cliffside jail

• 水牢みずろう

  (punishment by being placed in a) water-filled chamber

• 永牢えいろう

  life imprisonment

• 牢としてろうとして

  firmly; strongly

• 牢名主ろうなぬし

  head of a prisoners' group (Edo period)

• 牢問ろうもん

  whipping, stone placement, and shrimp-tie bondage (three forms of Edo-period torture)

• 牢固ろうこ

  firm; solid; inflexible; immovable

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