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禁 — prohibition, ban, forbid

きん禁 prohibition

Grade 5 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 13 strokes

U+7981 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #681 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1179 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

prohibition
ban
forbid

word

きん kin On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

禁(きん) kin prohibition 禁(きん) 止(し) kinshi prohibition 禁(きん) じる kinjiru to prohibit 解(かい) 禁(きん) kaikin lifting a ban 禁(きん) 煙(えん) kinen no smoking 監(かん) 禁(きん) kankin confinement 禁(きん) 錮(こ) kinko imprisonment

Appears in idioms

女人禁制四字熟語

woman, person, prohibition, system

Stroke order

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Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

はやし林 grove

しめす示 show #113

Used as component in (1)

えり襟 collar

Kangxi Radical The Kangxi radicals are a set of 214 character components standardized in the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary. Every kanji is classified under one radical, used for dictionary lookup and character organization.