禁 – vocab dash

禁きん

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Meanings

Noun

1. ban (e.g. on smoking); prohibition

Kanji used

Pitch accent

きん

Used in vocabulary

prohibition on women entering (usu. for religious reasons); no female admission

Noun

closed season for fishing or hunting

Noun

reproduction prohibited

Noun

18 certificate; R-18; restricted to those 18 years or older

Noun

word processor function for handling line breaking rules in Japanese; line break control

Noun

antitrust policy

Noun

forbidden to take out (e.g. of a book in a library)

No-adjective

Examples1

彼かれは一いち年ねん近ちかくもアルコール類るいを断ことわっていたが、お正しょう月がつの頃ころに禁きんを破やぶってまた元もとに戻もどってしまった。

He had been dry for almost a year, but he fell off the wagon around New Year's Day.