禁

Meaning

禁 centers on an authoritative restriction: something is prohibited, banned, or forbidden, often with a sense of a rule or barrier.

• 禁止きんし
  N3

  prohibition; inhibition; ban

• 解禁かいきん

  lifting a ban; raising an embargo; opening a season (hunting, fishing, etc.)

• 禁煙きんえん
  N4

  abstaining from smoking; quitting smoking

• 禁ずるきんずる
  N1

  to forbid; to ban; to prohibit

• 監禁かんきん
  N1

  confinement; imprisonment; incarceration

• 禁酒きんしゅ
  N1

  abstinence from alcohol; temperance

• 厳禁げんきん

  strict prohibition; ban; interdiction

• 禁物きんもつ
  N2

  thing that should be (carefully) avoided; no-no; thing to definitely not do; something forbidden; taboo

• 禁制きんせい

  prohibition; ban; embargo

• 禁じるきんじる
  N1

  to forbid; to ban; to prohibit

• 拘禁こうきん

  detention; custody; confinement; internment

• 軟禁なんきん

  house arrest

• 発禁はっきん

  prohibition of sale; ban on sale

• 立ち入り禁止たちいりきんし
  N4

  No Entry; No Trespassing; No Admittance; Off Limits; Keep Out; Keep Off

• 禁錮きんこ

  imprisonment (without forced labour); incarceration; confinement

• 禁句きんく
  N1

  taboo word; forbidden topic

• 禁輸きんゆ

  embargo

• 独禁法どっきんほう

  antitrust law; Antitrust Act

• 禁止法きんしほう

  negative statute; law against something

• 禁欲的きんよくてき
  N1

  abstemious; austere

• 禁止事項きんしじこう

  prohibited item; banned item

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