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

13 strokes
Radical:
clothes 衣 (衤)
Parts:
back, amidst, in, reverse, inside, palm, sole, rear, lining, wrong side
Kun:
うら
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 6
JLPT level N2
812 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 裏 【リ】 in (e.g. secret), with (e.g. success)
  • 裏面 【リメン】 back (side), reverse, the inside, background, dark side (e.g. of society), behind the scenes, beneath the surface
  • 内裏 【ダイリ】 imperial palace, festival dolls representing the emperor and the empress
  • 影裏 【エイリ】 shade

Kun reading compounds

  • 裏 【うら】 opposite side, bottom, other side, side hidden from view, undersurface, reverse side, rear, back, behind, lining, inside, in the shadows, behind the scenes, offstage, behind (someone's) back, more (to something than meets the eye), hidden side (e.g. of one's personality), unknown circumstances, different side, proof, opposite (of a prediction, common sense, etc.), contrary, inverse (of a hypothesis, etc.), bottom (of an inning), last half (of an inning)
  • 裏方 【うらかた】 someone working behind-the-scenes, scene shifter, lady consort (to a high personage)
  • 舞台裏 【ぶたいうら】 offstage, backstage, behind the scenes
  • 口裏 【くちうら】 determining a speaker's true or hidden meaning, determining a speaker's intentions from his manner of speech, divining good or bad luck from listening to someone

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
li3
Korean:
ri

Spanish

  • reverso
  • opuesto
  • parte interior
  • en esa situación
  • interior

Portuguese

  • costas
  • no meio de
  • em
  • inverter
  • interior
  • palma
  • atrás
  • forro
  • lado errado

French

  • arrière
  • revers
  • verso
  • intérieur
  • semelle
  • paume
  • envers
  • doublure
  • mauvais côté
1002 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
992 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
755 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
327 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1076 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
883 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2176 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
273 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
273 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
436 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1627 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2652 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1354 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1836 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
406 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
34294 Morohashi
2138 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
5462 New Nelson (John Haig)
399 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
426 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
969 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
465 2001 Kanji
2j11.2 The Kanji Dictionary
2-2-11 SKIP code
0073.2 Four corner code
1-46-02 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
88cf Unicode hex code