U+7981 "禁" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
禁
U+7981 "禁" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a logogram from the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) character set that primarily means "to prohibit," "to forbid," or "to ban," and it also carries connotations of "restraint" or "the imperial palace" in classical contexts. Composed of the radical 示 (meaning "spirit" or "to show") combined with the phonetic component 林 (meaning "forest"), its structure evokes the idea of a forbidden or guarded place, like the Forbidden City (紫禁城) in Beijing. In modern usage, it appears frequently in words such as 禁止 (prohibit), 禁忌 (taboo), and 禁煙 (no smoking), and its semantic range extends to legal, social, and cultural prohibitions across East Asian languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+7981 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| Block | CJK Unified Ideographs |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 禁 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 禁 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE7 0xA6 0x81 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x7981 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00007981 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u7981 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | B854 |
| kCCCII | 214E74 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-655B |
| kCNS1992 | 1-655B |
| kCangjie | DDMMF |
| kCantonese | gam3 |
| kCihaiT | 982.501 |
| kCowles | 1530 1906 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1264.110 |
| kDefinition | restrict, prohibit, forbid |
| kEACC | 214E74 |
| kFanqie | 居吟 居蔭 |
| kFenn | 492C |
| kFennIndex | 74.06 76.04 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4490.1 |
| kGB0 | 2991 |
| kGB1 | 2991 |
| kGradeLevel | 3 |
| kGSR | 0655k |
| kHangul | 금:0E |
| kHanYu | 42400.040 |
| kHanyuPinlu | jìn(78) jīn(64) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 42400.040:jìn,jīn |
| kHKGlyph | 2879 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1264.110 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 42400.040 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0844.100 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-3D7B |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-B854 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-3658 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-D2A3 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-5057 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-655B |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-6126 |
| kJapanese | キン コン ゴン とどめる |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kTGH | 2013:2863 |
| kJapaneseKun | TODOMERU TAERU |
| kJapaneseOn | KIN KON GON |
| kJis0 | 2256 |
| kKangXi | 0844.100 |
| kKarlgren | 388 |
| kKorean | KUM |
| kLau | 841 842 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 4391 |
| kMandarin | jìn |
| kMatthews | 1077 |
| kMeyerWempe | 1017 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ018871 |
| kMorohashi | 24743 |
| kNelson | 3251 |
| kPhonetic | 567 776 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+1744+113.5.8 |
| kRSUnicode | 113.8 |
| kSBGY | 220.06 441.05 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 480.16 327.12 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | jìn粵gam3 jīn粵gam1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 4391 |
| kTang | *gyìm |
| kTGHZ2013 | 176.050:jīn 177.140:jìn |
| kTotalStrokes | 13 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | cấm |
| kXerox | 246:356 |
| kXHC1983 | 0585.020:jīn 0592.080:jìn |