Kana: かぎ

key

Example sentence

部屋の鍵をなくしました。

へやのかぎをなくしました。

I lost the room key.

What 鍵 means

(かぎ) is a Japanese word meaning “key”. It belongs to the Things & Objects topic and appears at Level 2 (and again in Level 4), so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Japanese.

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