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Kanji Detail for 禁 - "to forbid"

禁

  • Meaning

    禁 means "to forbid." Also associated with to abstain, to restrain.

    1. Forbid - To prohibit; to not allow.

    2. Abstain - To avoid; to refrain from.

    3. Restrain - To hold back; to control.

    4. Palace - The imperial residence; the royal court.

    5. Endure - To bear; to withstand.

  • Words using 禁

    • 禁止 きんし Listen prohibition; inhibition; ban
    • 解禁 かいきん Listen lifting a ban; raising an embargo; opening a season (hunting, fishing, etc.)
    • 独禁法 どっきんほう Listen antitrust law; Antitrust Act
    • 禁輸 きんゆ Listen embargo
    • 禁止法 きんしほう Listen negative statute; law against something
    • 監禁 かんきん Listen confinement; imprisonment; incarceration
    • 禁錮 きんこ Listen imprisonment (without forced labour); incarceration; confinement
    • 軟禁 なんきん Listen house arrest

  • Four-character idioms with 禁

    • 女人禁制 にょにんきんせい Listen prohibition on women entering (usu. for religious reasons); no female admission
    • 殺生禁断 せっしょうきんだん Listen prohibition against hunting and fishing

  • Tattoo check: 禁

    • Verified meaning: to forbid
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Also carries these associations: to abstain, to restrain

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    prohibition; ban; forbid

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    restrict, prohibit, forbid

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    to endure

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    to restrict, to prohibit, to forbid; to endure

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    To control so as to prevent doing. All that laws and regulations consider improper is called 禁. | Where the emperor resides is called 禁. Such as 禁中 (the palace). Meaning those who are not attending ministers cannot enter arbitrarily. | Prison is called 禁. Such as saying 監禁 (imprison). Meaning to stop their freedom of movement. | To avoid. Such as saying 百無禁忌 (having no taboos). | What one's strength can overcome. To withstand. Like colloquially saying 禁不起. Meaning strength cannot bear it.

  • Onyomi

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    kin(キン) キン

  • Kunyomi

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    none

  • Strokes

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    13 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    示 礻 (shimesu・shimesuhen)

  • Related Keywords

    to forbid to abstain to restrain avoid curse endure palace secretly privately stop prevent prohibition ban taboo barred blocked censored embargoed outlawed prohibited refrain

Sentences including 禁

  • He is in bonds.

  • Father decided to stop smoking.

  • You are not supposed to smoke here.

  • My parents forbade me to see tom again.

  • After the accident , he was banned from driving.

  • She is forbidden to go out.

  • What method did you use to give up smoking?

  • He has given up smoking for the sake of his health.

  • I quit smoking two years ago.

  • It is difficult to give up smoking.

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