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禁 kanji
prohibition, ban, forbid
- JLPT level
- N2 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 13
- School grade
- Grade 5 (elementary school)
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Kun readings
NoneWords with 禁
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —禁鳥legally protected bird
- —禁獄imprisonment; incarceration
- —禁衛protecting the emperor
- —国禁state prohibition
- —駐禁no parking
- —禁ずto forbid; to ban; to prohibit
- —禁遏prohibition; ban
- —禁野emperor's private hunting preserve
- —独禁antimonopoly; antitrust
- —出禁ban on entering (a building, venue, etc.)
- —禁色restrictions on the use of colors by ranks of Heian-era courtiers
- —海禁ban on maritime activities during China's Ming and Qing dynasties
- —屏禁solitary confinement
- —禁呪charm; incantation; spell; magic formula
- —禁薬quitting drugs; going cold turkey; going clean
- —禁闕palace gate; imperial palace
- —持禁forbidden to take out (e.g. of a book in a library)
- —禁軍Imperial Guards (Tang dynasty)
- —禁絶complete ban; total prohibition
- —食禁dietary restriction (due to illness, requirements of a medicine, etc.)