Chinese symbol for “curfew”
禁夜
jìn yè
curfew
The closest CC-CEDICT match for curfew is 禁夜 (jìn yè), defined as: curfew.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “curfew”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 禁足 | jìn zú | to forbid sb to go out; to confine to one location (e.g. student, soldier, prisoner, monk etc) |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 禁夜.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 禁止 | jìn zhǐ | to prohibit; to forbid |
| 不禁 | bù jīn | can't help (doing sth); can't refrain from |
| 监禁 (監禁) | jiān jìn | to imprison; to jail |
| 禁令 | jìn lìng | prohibition; ban |
| 禁忌 | jìn jì | taboo; contraindication (medicine) |
| 囚禁 | qiú jìn | to imprison; captivity |
| 夜晚 | yè wǎn | night; 个 (gè) |
| 深夜 | shēn yè | very late at night |
See also: Japanese symbol for “curfew”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.