Hanja Analyzer
禁

禁 — geum

Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).

Korean reading
금할 금
Romanization
geum
English
restrict, prohibit, forbid
Mandarin
jìn
Japanese on'yomi
キン, コン, ゴン
Japanese kun'yomi
とどめる
Japanese usage
Jōyō kanji
School grade
Grade 5
Newspaper frequency
#681 of 2,500
Strokes
13
Radical
示 (113, 8 residual)
Phonetic component
林
Unicode
U+7981

Parts that make up 禁

  • 林 수풀 림sound 나무 둘이 늘어선 숲숲과 나무가 많은 곳
  • 示 보일 시, 땅 귀신 기 제물을 올린 제단제사와 신, 하늘이 내리는 일. 왼쪽에서 礻 로 쓴다

How 禁 was formed

Traditional analysis treats 禁 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 林, 示.

Korean example words with 禁

  • 금내禁內 Korean gloss: 대궐 안
  • 금중禁中 Korean gloss: 대궐 안
  • 금렵禁獵 Korean gloss: 사냥을 못 하게 함
  • 금물禁物 Korean gloss: 해서는 안 되는 일
  • 방금邦禁 Korean gloss: 나라에서 금하는 일
  • 금수禁輸 Korean gloss: 수입이나 수출을 금함
  • 금장禁葬 Korean gloss: 어떤 장소에 매장을 금함
  • 금표禁標 Korean gloss: 출입 금지를 알리는 푯말
  • 금남禁男 Korean gloss: 남자의 출입이나 접근을 금함
  • 금지禁地 Korean gloss: 함부로 드나들지 못하게 하는 땅
  • 감금監禁 Korean gloss: 드나들지 못하도록 일정한 곳에 가둠
  • 금령禁令 Korean gloss: 어떤 행위를 하지 못하게 하는 법령

Definitions from Woorimalsam, National Institute of Korean Language (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR)

Japanese words with 禁

  • 禁止きんし prohibition; inhibition; ban
  • 禁煙きんえん abstaining from smoking; quitting smoking; prohibition of smoking
  • 解禁かいきん lifting a ban; raising an embargo; opening a season (hunting, fishing, etc.)
  • 独禁法どっきんほう antitrust law; Antitrust Act
  • 禁輸きんゆ embargo
  • 禁止法きんしほう negative statute; law against something
  • 監禁かんきん confinement; imprisonment; incarceration
  • 禁じるきんじる to forbid; to ban; to prohibit
  • 軟禁なんきん house arrest
  • 禁物きんもつ thing that should be (carefully) avoided; no-no; thing to definitely not do
  • 拘禁こうきん detention; custody; confinement
  • 発禁はっきん prohibition of sale; ban on sale

Characters sharing the phonetic 林

Most Han characters pair a meaning part with a sound part. Characters sharing a sound part are usually read alike.

Other hanja read “금”

Other hanja with radical 示

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