Kanji1 / 7
戒 kanji
commandment
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N1 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 7
- School grade
- Secondary school
On readings
カイ
Kun readings
いましめる
Words with 戒
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —邪淫戒precept of marital chastity and sexual restraint; precept of brahmacharya
- —殺生戒precept forbidding the taking of life; precept against killing; precept of ahimsa
- —偸盗戒precept of non-stealing; precept of achourya; precept of asteya
- —厳戒令martial law
- —警戒網cordon (e.g. police, military)
- —斎戒沐浴purification; washing
- —懲戒免職disciplinary dismissal (discharge)
- —非常警戒full alert; special watch
- —懲戒処分disciplinary measures; (judicial) sanctions
- —警戒警報preliminary alert (flood, typhoon, air-raid, etc.); precautionary warning
- —戒を破るto break the Buddhist commandments
- —警戒ぶりguarding; guard
- —一罰百戒punishing a crime to make an example for others
- —自重自戒being prudent and cautious; caution oneself against
- —哨戒艦艇military patrol boat
- —厳戒態勢high alert; a state of high alert; on alert
- —警戒信号warning signal; restricted speed signal
- —警戒宣言official warning (esp. of an impending earthquake)
- —沙弥十戒the ten precepts
- —警戒区域hazard area (flood, tsunami, etc.); danger zone; no man's land