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Words with 牢

Kanji 牢, meaning hardness, appears in 28 Japanese vocabulary entries.

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牢人

ろうにん

high school graduate waiting for another chance to enter university after having failed the yearly entrance examination

牢獄

ろうごく

prison

永牢

えいろう

life imprisonment

蒲牢

ほろう

Pulao (Chinese dragon)

堅牢

けんろう

solid

堅牢堅固

けんろうけんご

firm and solid

座敷牢

ざしきろう

room for confining criminals or lunatics (Edo period)

女牢

おんなろう

jail for women (Edo period)

水牢

みずろう

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

石牢

いしろう

jail made by placing bars across a cave entrance

地下牢

ちかろう

dungeon

地牢

じろう

dungeon

土牢

つちろう

dungeon

入牢

にゅうろう

imprisonment

破牢

はろう

breaking out of prison

亡羊補牢

ぼうようほろう

locking the barn door after the horse has bolted

ろう

firm

牢として

ろうとして

firmly

牢屋

ろうや

jail

牢屋敷

ろうやしき

precinct of a jail

牢記

ろうき

keeping in mind

牢乎

ろうこ

firm

牢死

ろうし

dying in prison

牢破り

ろうやぶり

jailbreak

牢番

ろうばん

prison guard

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)

牢役人

ろうやくにん

(Edo-period) jail warden