Additional information about 遏
說文解字: 【遏】，微止也。从辵、曷聲。讀若桑蟲之蝎。 【烏割切】
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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.