差し止め
Meanings
Noun
1. prohibition; ban; suspension; injunction
Other spellings
差止め差止
Kanji used
Pitch accent
さしとめ
Composed of
差し
between (e.g. two people); face to face; hindrance; impediment; arrhythmic section of recitative; playing with only 2 players; prefix used for stress or emphasis; counter for traditional dance songs
Noun
止め
(a) stop (e.g. in a timber joint, or at the end of a kanji stroke); remaining (e.g. poste-restante)
Noun
Used in vocabulary
Examples1
その ニュース は 当分の間 差し止め に なった。
The news was suppressed for the time being.