戒 — kanji meaning “commandment”
戒
commandment
- Meanings
- commandment
- On'yomi
- カイ (kai)
- Kun'yomi
- いまし.める
- Strokes
- 7
- School grade
- 8
- JLPT (old scale)
- Level 1
- Newspaper frequency
- #1062 of 2,500
- Classical radical
- 62
- Chinese reading
- jiè — Chinese character page
Words with 戒
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 警戒 | けいかい keikai | vigilance; caution; alertness |
| 懲戒 | ちょうかい choukai | discipline; punishment; reprimand |
| 戒め | いましめ imashime | caution; admonition; warning |
| 戒律 | かいりつ kairitsu | (religious) precept; discipline; commandment |
| 厳戒 | げんかい genkai | strict guard |
| 哨戒 | しょうかい shoukai | patrol (with ships or aircraft); patrolling |
| 戒める | いましめる imashimeru | to warn against; to caution against |
| 戒名 | かいみょう kaimyou | posthumous Buddhist name |
| 自戒 | じかい jikai | self-admonition |
| 戒告 | かいこく kaikoku | admonition; warning; caution |
| 訓戒 | くんかい kunkai | warning; admonition; lesson or a phrase that teaches you not to do something |
| 破戒 | はかい hakai | breaking a commandment (usually religious); offense against the Buddhist commandments (offence) |
Data: KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); JMdict (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.
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