拘こう禁きん

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拘禁する · noun or participle which takes 'suru'

Form	Positive	Negative
Dictionary	拘こう禁きんする	拘こう禁きんしない
Polite	拘こう禁きんします	拘こう禁きんしません
Past polite	拘こう禁きんしました	拘こう禁きんしませんでした
Past	拘こう禁きんした	拘こう禁きんしなかった
Te-form	拘こう禁きんして	拘こう禁きんしないで
Desire	拘こう禁きんしたい	拘こう禁きんしたくない
Potential	拘こう禁きんできる	拘こう禁きんできない
Passive	拘こう禁きんされる	拘こう禁きんされない
Causative	拘こう禁きんさせる	拘こう禁きんさせない
Causative passive	拘こう禁きんさせられる	拘こう禁きんさせられない
Volitional	拘こう禁きんしよう
Polite volitional	拘こう禁きんしましょう
Imperative	拘こう禁きんしろ	拘こう禁きんするな
Conditional	拘こう禁きんすれば	拘こう禁きんしなければ
Tara conditional	拘こう禁きんしたら	拘こう禁きんしなかったら

Meanings

noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru', transitive verb

detention; custody; confinement

Formal term for holding someone in custody, typically by legal authority. Often used in legal, police, or prison contexts.

容よう疑ぎ者しゃは警けい察さつ署しょに拘こう禁きんされている。
The suspect is being detained at the police station.
不ふ当とうな拘こう禁きんは人じん権けん侵しん害がいにあたる。
Unlawful detention constitutes a human rights violation.

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Usage patterns

〈人ひと〉を拘こう禁きんするto detain/confine a person
警けい察さつは容よう疑ぎ者しゃを拘こう禁きんした。
The police detained the suspect.
〈人ひと〉が拘こう禁きんされるfor a person to be detained
彼かれは不ふ当とうに拘こう禁きんされた。
He was unjustly detained.
拘こう禁きんから解かい放ほうされるto be released from detention
彼かれはついに拘こう禁きんから解かい放ほうされた。
He was finally released from detention.

Kanji

拘arrest, seize, concerned
禁prohibition, ban, forbid

Related words· 6

拘こう留りゅう
拘禁 is a general term for detention or custody, while 拘留 refers specifically to a short-term criminal penalty of up to 30 days.
監かん禁きんN1
拘禁 usually implies lawful custody by authorities, while 監禁 often suggests illegal confinement, as in kidnapping.
収しゅう監かん
拘禁 is the general act of detaining someone, while 収監 specifically means placing a person into prison to serve a sentence.
投とう獄ごく
拘禁 refers more broadly to confining or detaining someone (e.g. pending trial), whereas 投獄 specifically means sending someone to prison as punishment.

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軟なん禁きん
拘禁 is a formal legal term for detention or custody, whereas 軟禁 emphasizes a relatively lenient confinement to one's home or a designated place.
拘こう置ち
拘禁 is a general term for confining or restraining someone (including outside criminal contexts), while 拘置 specifically refers to legal pre-trial detention.

Opposites

釈しゃく放ほうN1
拘禁 means holding someone in custody, while 釈放 means releasing them from that custody.

Don't confuse with

禁きん固こ
禁固 is a formal criminal sentence handed down by a court, while 拘禁 is a broader term for physical confinement or custody (such as pretrial detention) and is not itself a type of sentence, though the shared kanji 禁 makes them easy to mix up.

Counted with

件けんN2
matter; affair; case; item; subject · counter for received messages · counter for online accounts

Word family

拘こう禁きん刑けい
imprisonment; prison sentence
拘こう禁きん者しゃ
detainee
予よ防ぼう拘こう禁きん
preventive detention; preventive custody

Etymology

Compound of 拘 (bind, arrest) and 禁 (prohibit, forbid). The exact historical derivation is uncertain, but the kanji combination naturally conveys the meaning of restraining and prohibiting freedom.