Kanji1 / 19
警 kanji
admonish, commandment
- JLPT level
- N3 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 19
- School grade
- Grade 6 (elementary school)
On readings
ケイ
Kun readings
いましめる
Words with 警
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —警策Zen stick (used by a Zen priest to strike an inattentive zazen sitter); warning stick (Rinzai Zen); encouragement stick (Soto Zen); horsewhip
- —警急alarm; emergency; sudden contingency; alert
- —国警national rural police (1947-1954)
- —警固watching (esp. during an emergency); being on alert; guard; watchmen
- —警泥cops and robbers (hide-and-seek game)
- —泥警cops and robbers (hide-and-seek game)
- —軍警military police
- —連警federal police (US, Brazil, Australia, etc.)
- —海警China Coast Guard; maritime security; coast guard
- —夜警The Night Watch (1642 painting by Rembrandt)
- —警戒心wariness
- —警告音warning sound
- —警報音warning sound
- —違警罪misdemeanor
- —無警告without warning or notice
- —無警察(the state of) anarchy
- —自警団vigilante group; neighborhood watch; self-defense group
- —警世家social critic
- —警戒色warning color; warning colour
- —警戒線warning line; police cordon