柵 means “fence, railing”

さく · saku

Also: stockade, weir, entwine around

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

しがらむ, しがらみ, とりで, やらい

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

サク, サン

JLPT N1 · Taught in secondary school · 9 strokes

The story

Wood (木) beside 冊, slips of bamboo bound in a row: posts lined up and tied together. 柵 is a fence or railing, around a pasture or along a platform, and read しがらみ it is the ties of duty and obligation that hold a person in place.

Used in 柵 (saku, fence/railing), 鉄柵 (tessaku, iron railing), and 柵 (shigarami, ties/obligations)

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