commandment
戒 centers on a binding rule or warning meant to control behavior: a commandment, precept, or admonition that restrains and guides.
戒 combines 戈 (a halberd or weapon) with 廾 (two hands), suggesting hands holding a weapon as a warning or to enforce a command. The idea of a commandment or admonition likely grew from this image of guarded restraint.
Two hands 廾 gripping a halberd 戈 create a stern warning: a commandment that must not be broken.
For カイ, imagine a commander shouting 'KAI!' as a sharp admonition while holding a weapon: the sound 'KAI' cues カイ and reinforces the idea of a binding command.
vigilance; caution; alertness; precaution; being on guard
discipline; punishment; reprimand
caution; admonition; warning; lesson
admonition; commandment
patrol (with ships or aircraft); patrolling
(religious) precept; discipline; commandment; mitzvah
strict guard
martial law
posthumous Buddhist name
self-admonition
the ten precepts
to warn against; to caution against
ordination platform
admonition; warning; caution
breaking a commandment (usually religious); offense against the Buddhist commandments (offence)
warning; admonition; lesson or a phrase that teaches you not to do something
punishing a crime to make an example for others
Verse of the Shared Morality of the Seven Buddhas
three lifetime commandments (youth's femininity, middle-aged struggle, old-age gain)
precepts given to an adherent prior to being consecrated as an Acharya (in esoteric Buddhism)