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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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On readings
キン
Kun readings
NoneWords with 禁
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —禁を犯すto break the prohibition (law); to violate the ban
- —禁を解くto lift (remove) a ban
- —禁止薬物banned drug
- —自宅軟禁house arrest
- —禁欲生活an ascetic existence; (leading) a continent life; abstinence
- —帯出禁止Not to be taken out; Reference Only
- —軟禁状態(state of) house arrest; (state of) confinement
- —禁門の変Hamaguri Rebellion (1864); Kinmon incident
- —通行禁止No Entry!; no thoroughfare; passage prohibited; entry is prohibited
- —禁煙区域no smoking area
- —禁制原理Pauli exclusion principle
- —折曲厳禁do not fold; do not bend
- —飲食禁止no food or drink (e.g. as a sign in a library, etc.); no eating or drinking
- —禁則処理word processor function for handling line breaking rules in Japanese; line break control
- —変換禁止conversion prohibition
- —土足厳禁shoes strictly prohibited
- —輸入禁止ban on import; import ban; import prohibition; prohibition of importation
- —終日禁煙no smoking at any time
- —禁煙外来smoking cessation clinic; smoking cessation outpatient services
- —独占禁止antimonopoly; antitrust