遮
intercept, interrupt, obstruct
Readings
On'yomi
- シャ
Kun'yomi
- さえぎ.る
Meaning
遮 centers on blocking passage or flow: intercepting movement, interrupting an action, or obstructing a path.
Most common words using 遮
20 of 40- 遮断しゃだん
isolation; cut off; blockade; quarantine; interception; deprivation
- 遮るさえぎるN1
to interrupt; to obstruct (a view, someone's way, etc.); to block (light, wind, etc.); to intercept; to cut off
- 遮蔽しゃへい
shielding; sheltering; screening; shading; masking
- 遮光しゃこう
shading; shielding from light
- 遮音しゃおん
soundproofing; sound insulation
- 遮断器しゃだんき
circuit breaker
- 遮断機しゃだんき
(railway) crossing gate; barrier (at a toll booth, parking lot, etc.)
- 交通遮断こうつうしゃだん
blockage; quarantine
- 光線を遮るこうせんをさえぎる
to intercept the light
- 回路遮断機かいろしゃだんき
circuit breaker
- 大毘盧遮那成仏神変加持経だいびるしゃなじょうぶつじんべんかじきょう
Mahavairocana Sutra; Mahavairocana Tantra
- 大毘盧遮那経だいびるしゃなきょう
Mahavairocana Sutra; Mahavairocana Tantra
- 感覚遮断かんかくしゃだん
sensory deprivation
- 摩訶毘盧遮那まかびるしゃな
Mahavairocana (Buddha who symbolizes the entirety of the phenomenological world)
- 毘盧遮那びるしゃな
Vairocana (Buddha who symbolizes the entirety of the phenomenological world)
- 毘盧遮那仏びるしゃなぶつ
Vairocana-Buddha
- 漏電遮断器ろうでんしゃだんき
earth leakage circuit breaker; ground fault circuit interrupter; GFCI; residual current device; RCD
- 無遮大会むしゃだいえ
great equal assembly (quinquennial service of indiscriminatory almsgiving and preaching)
- 睡眠遮断すいみんしゃだん
sleep deprivation
- 話を遮るはなしをさえぎる
to interrupt (a person)
Study
Etymology
遮 combines 辶 (movement) with 庶, which likely contributes the sound and the idea of blocking or stopping. The exact historical development of 庶 within this character is uncertain.
Meaning mnemonic
The movement enclosure 辶 surrounds 庶, like a barrier placed in the path of something moving. Picture a roadblock that intercepts and interrupts all traffic.
Reading mnemonic
For シャ, imagine a sharp barrier that intercepts everything: sharp -> シャ, and the sharp edge obstructs the way.