Taxonomy of meanings for 禁:　　

  • 禁 jìn (OC: krɯms MC: kɯim) 居蔭切 去 廣韻：【制也謹也止也避王莽家諱改曰省又姓何氏姓苑云今吴興人居䕃切三 】
    • FORBID
      • nsubjectforbidden area
      • nabactprohibition; ban, official closure
      • vadNpassiveforbidden, prohibited
      • viactissue prohibitions; enforce a prohibition, be effectively preventive
      • vtoN{PIVOT}+.Vt{NEG}+Vstop the N from V-ing
      • vtoNprohibit, forbid, cause to stop, put a stop to prevent, ban; preclude, prevent; constrain
      • vtoNN=humanban
      • vtoNpassivebe prohibited by; be forbidden to do things
      • vtoNpsychissue prohibitions to (itself)
      • vtt(oN.)+V[0]omforbid contextually determinate subordinates to V
      • vttoN(.+V[0])forbid N to do perform the contextually determinate act V
      • vttoN[. V]prohibit N from doing inappropriate thingsCH
      • v[adN]V=passivefobidden things, what is forbiddenLZ
      • vtoNpassivebe forbidden access, but oficially shutLZ
      • vt[oN]forbid access to an areaLZ
      • generalised>COMMAND
        • nabtextprohibition, order containing a formal prohibition
      • physical>HINDER
          • object: own future experience>AVOID
            • object: desire to escape>ENDURE
              • systematic>CONTROL
                • vtoNreflexive.自control so as to prevent (oneself) from transgression
              • stop continuation>STOP
                • vt+V[0]prevent (V-ing), stop (V-ing) by others
                • vtoNprevent
                • vtoNpassive, middle voicebe interdicted; be prevented, be stopped; 
                • vtoNPab{S}prevent NP-ing
              • limited>RESTRAIN
                • visually>CONCEAL
                    • featurer>SECRET
                      • public, ritually>TABOO
                        • free movement>IMPRISON
                            • place forbidding exit>PRISON
                              • place forbidding entrance>PALACE
                                • nforbidden inner recesses of the palace
                      • =噤SILENT
                      • 禁 jīn (OC: krɯm MC: kɯim) 居吟切 平 廣韻：【力所加也勝也又居䕃切 】

                        Additional information about 禁

                        說文解字: 【禁】，吉凶之忌也。从示、林聲。 【禁蔭切】

                          Criteria
                        • FORBID

                          1. The current dominant general word referring to public prohibition is jìn 禁 (ant. quàn 勸 "encourage").

                          2. Yù 御 / 禦 (ant. sòng yǒng 慫恿 "leave free to do what one wants") refers to putting an end to practice by authority, but not necessarily through formal public prohibition of the practice.

                          3. È 遏 refers more narrowly to putting a legal stop to the further development of something.

                        • PERMIT

                          1. The current general word for formal permission for someone to do something which he asks to do is xǔ 許 (ant. jìn 禁 "forbid").

                          2. Tīng 聽 (ant. fú tīng 弗聽 "refuse to listen" and the rarer bì 愎 "be stubborn (and refuse)") refers to the superior giving permission for a suggestion from his inferiors to be carried out, typically by himself or his agents.

                          3. Dé 得 refers to the obtaining explicit or implicit permission to go ahead with something one would like to do.

                          4. Shǐ 使 (ant. jìn 禁 "prohibit, forbid") is sometimes used to refer to a failure to prevent someone from doing something which amounts to an implicit form of permission.

                          Word relations
                        • Ant: (FORBID)令/COMMAND The standard current word for a command is lìng 令, and the content (not the words) of the command is typically in the sentence that follows. We do not find: 令曰, and it is significant that lìng 令 also regularly means "to cause to".
                        • Object: (FORBID)姦/WICKED Jiān 姦 (ant. liáng 良 "of the good sort, decent") refers to sheer human depravity and moral incompetence with no supernatural or sinister overtones.
                        • Object: (FORBID)邪/WICKED Xié 邪 (ant. zhèng 正 "straight and in no way wicked") typically involves nuances of sinister evil influences in addition to plain human depravity.
                        • Contrast: (FORBID)割/CUT The commonest general word for "cut" is ancient Chinese kat, modern reading gē 割.
                        • Contrast: (FORBID)諱/TABOO
                        • Assoc: (FORBID)法/LAW The current general word for a law, a legal system or any legal provision of any kind is fǎ 法.
                        • Assoc: (STOP)止/STOP The standard current word for ceasing in an activity is zhǐ 止 (ant. xíng 行 "carry on with"), and this word can to any concrete or abstract activity; the ceasing may be final or temporary.
                        • Assoc: (FORBID)令/COMMAND The standard current word for a command is lìng 令, and the content (not the words) of the command is typically in the sentence that follows. We do not find: 令曰, and it is significant that lìng 令 also regularly means "to cause to".
                        • Assoc: (FORBID)防/HINDER
                        • Synon: (STOP)止/STOP The standard current word for ceasing in an activity is zhǐ 止 (ant. xíng 行 "carry on with"), and this word can to any concrete or abstract activity; the ceasing may be final or temporary.