Jisho

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13 strokes
Radical:
sign 示 (礻)
Parts:
prohibition, ban, forbid
On:
キン
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 5
JLPT level N2
681 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 禁 【キン】 ban (e.g. on smoking), prohibition
  • 禁煙 【キンエン】 abstaining from smoking, quitting smoking, prohibition of smoking, No Smoking, Smoking Prohibited
  • 軟禁 【ナンキン】 house arrest
  • 拘禁 【コウキン】 detention, custody, confinement, internment

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
jin4, jin1
Korean:
geum

Spanish

  • prohibición
  • proscripción
  • prohibir

Portuguese

  • proibição
  • proibir
  • banir

French

  • interdiction
  • défense de
763 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
682 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
654 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
853 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3251 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
639 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
776 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2021 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
482 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
491 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
815 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1416 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3469 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1788 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2435 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1107 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
24743 Morohashi
2795 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4098 New Nelson (John Haig)
1098 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1179 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
772 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1841 2001 Kanji
4e8.3 The Kanji Dictionary
2-8-5 SKIP code
4490.1 Four corner code
1-22-56 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
7981 Unicode hex code

8 strokes
Radical:
mouth, opening
Parts:
Variants:
spell, curse, charm, malediction
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
2131 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 呪 【ジュ】 spell, curse, dharani, mantra
  • 呪術 【ジュジュツ】 magic, sorcery, incantation
  • 消災呪 【ショウサイジュ】 disaster-preventing incantation, disaster-preventing dharani
  • 明呪 【ミョウジュ】 mantra
  • 呪詛 【ジュソ】 curse, malediction, hex

Kun reading compounds

  • 呪う 【まじなう】 to pray that one avoids disaster or illness, to pray for harm or death to come upon someone, to curse, to charm, to conjure, to cast a spell (on someone), to treat illness (with a prayer)
  • 呪い 【のろい】 curse, spell, malediction
  • 呪い殺す 【のろいころす】 to curse (someone) to death, to put a deadly curse on (someone)
  • 呪い 【まじない】 charm, incantation, spell, curse
  • 呪う 【のろう】 to curse, to put a curse on, to detest intensely

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
zhou4
Korean:
ju

Spanish

  • maldición
  • hechizo
  • maldecir
  • hechizar
  • encantar

Portuguese

French

912 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1324 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
323 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
245 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
3443 Morohashi
764 New Nelson (John Haig)
2169 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
108 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
3d5.11 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-5 SKIP code
6601.0 Four corner code
1-28-86 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
546a Unicode hex code