Entry
  1. Noun

    ban (e.g. on smoking); prohibition

    彼は一年近くもアルコール類を断っていたが、お正月の頃に禁を破ってまた元に戻ってしまった。
    He had been dry for almost a year, but he fell off the wagon around New Year's Day.
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Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

prohibition, ban, forbid

On
キン
Strokes
13
Taught
Grade 5
JLPT
N2
Frequency
681 of 2500
Radical
spirit
WaniKani
Level 18

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Dictionary and index codes (32)
CodeReference
2-8-5SKIP code
4e8.3The Kanji Dictionary
4490.1Four corner code
1841deroo
7981Unicode hex code
1-22-56JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
3251Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
4098New Nelson (John Haig)
2795New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3469Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1788Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2435Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1098Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1179Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
853A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2021Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
639Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
24743Morohashi
654A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
482Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
491Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
763sakade
776Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
682henshall3
772Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
815Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1416Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1107Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette)
jin4, jin1Pinyin reading
geumKorean reading
n2JLPT level (KANJIDIC2)
18WaniKani level