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严禁 (yán jìn): meaning and stroke order

严禁 (yán jìn) means to strictly prohibit.

严禁

Simplified
严禁
Traditional
嚴禁
Pinyin
yán jìn

Stroke order of 严禁

严

  • Yán surname Yan
  • yán tight (closely sealed); stern
  • 7 strokes
  • Traditional form: 嚴

Stroke by stroke

禁

  • jīn to endure
  • jìn to prohibit; to forbid
  • 13 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 严禁

  1. yán jìn Traditional 嚴禁
    • to strictly prohibit

Radicals of the characters

严
Radical 一 (Kangxi radical 1) · 7 strokes · 亚 on top, 丿 below
禁
Radical 示 (Kangxi radical 113) · 13 strokes · 林 on top, 示 below

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

严禁 in our stories

Preview version — Chinese review in progress.

  • 几千年来，中国人一直把养蚕的方法当作最重要的秘密，严禁把蚕和蚕种带出国。

    jǐqiān nián lái Zhōngguó rén yìzhí bǎ yǎng cán de fāngfǎ dàngzuò zuì zhòngyào de mìmì yánjìn bǎ cán hé cánzhǒng dài chū guó

    For thousands of years the Chinese treated silkworm-raising as their most important secret and strictly forbade taking silkworms or their eggs out of the country.

    From the story Leizu and the silkworm HSK 7–9 · Level 8

Stories using 严禁

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).