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Japanese symbol for “curbing”

Romaji: seebu
saving (e.g. energy); cutting down on (e.g. alcohol); going easy on; checking (e.g. impulses)

In Japanese, curbing is (seebu).

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Meanings

  1. n, vs, vt saving (e.g. energy); cutting down on (e.g. alcohol); going easy on; checking (e.g. impulses); curbing; restraining
  2. n save (baseb)
  3. n, vs, vt save (comp)

Other Japanese words for “curbing”

WordReadingMeaning
けんせい kenseicheck; keeping in check; restraint

Data: JMdict (CC BY-SA 4.0); KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.