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禁固 (きんこ, kinko) Japanese meaning | Kotomora
Common word› Freq. Frequency Top 50,000 Conjugation 禁固する · noun or participle which takes 'suru'
Form Positive Negative Dictionary 禁きん 固こ する 禁きん 固こ しない Polite 禁きん 固こ します 禁きん 固こ しません Past polite 禁きん 固こ しました 禁きん 固こ しませんでした Past 禁きん 固こ した 禁きん 固こ しなかった Te-form 禁きん 固こ して 禁きん 固こ しないで Desire 禁きん 固こ したい 禁きん 固こ したくない Potential 禁きん 固こ できる 禁きん 固こ できない Passive 禁きん 固こ される 禁きん 固こ されない Causative 禁きん 固こ させる 禁きん 固こ させない Causative passive 禁きん 固こ させられる 禁きん 固こ させられない Volitional 禁きん 固こ しよう Polite volitional 禁きん 固こ しましょう Imperative 禁きん 固こ しろ 禁きん 固こ するな Conditional 禁きん 固こ すれば 禁きん 固こ しなければ Tara conditional 禁きん 固こ したら 禁きん 固こ しなかったら
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こく
は
禁きん
固こ
2
年ねん
の
判はん
決けつ
を
受う
け
た
。
The defendant received a sentence of two years' imprisonment without forced labour.
Please explain the difference between imprisonment without forced labour and imprisonment with forced labour.
Usage patterns 禁きん 固こ 〈 数かず 〉 年ねん imprisonment without labour for ~ years
The court sentenced him to three years' imprisonment without labour.
禁きん 固こ 刑けい に 処しょ す to sentence someone to imprisonment without labour
He was sentenced to imprisonment without labour for professional negligence resulting in death.
禁きん 固こ 〈 数かず 〉 年ねん 以い 下か imprisonment without labour of not more than ~ years
This offense is punishable by imprisonment without labour of up to three years.
Kanji 禁 prohibition, ban, forbid Don't confuse with 禁固 is a criminal sentence lasting months to years, while 拘留 is a much shorter custodial penalty of only 1 to 30 days for minor offenses, and the two are often confused since both are non-labour custodial punishments.
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.
懲役 is imprisonment that includes mandatory labor, while 禁錮 is imprisonment without compulsory labor, so the two are easily confused legal terms.
Word family minor imprisonment; imprisonment without hard labor
major imprisonment; imprisonment with hard labor
life imprisonment without work
Written forms 禁きん 固こ Usage 30%
Commonly used variant, especially in news and general writing. 固 means 'hard' or 'firm', but here it is a simplified substitute for 錮.
禁きん 錮こ Usage 70%
Standard legal spelling for imprisonment without forced labour. The character 錮 means 'to confine' or 'to imprison'.
Etymology From the characters 禁 (prohibition) and 錮 (confinement). The variant 禁固 uses 固 (hard, firm) as a simplified substitute. The term is a modern legal concept introduced in the Meiji era.
