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Commandment Radical Hands Moses 戒 カイ いまし.める 警戒(けいかい

Kanji
Onyomi カイ
Kunyomi いまし.める
English commandment
Examples 警戒(けいかい): (1) vigilance; precaution; watch; lookout; alertness (2) to be vigilant; to be cautious; to guard (against)
JLPT Level 1
Jouyou Grade S
Frequency 1062
Components 戈: halberd; arms; festival car; float; tasselled spear radical (no. 62)
廾: twenty; 20; twenty or letter H radical (no. 55)
Number of Strokes 7
Kanji Radical
Radical Number 62
Radical Strokes 4
Radical Reading ほこ・ほこづくり・ほこがまえ・かのほこ
Traditional Form (none)
Classification 会意 Compound Ideographic
Keyword commandment
Koohii Story 1 Two hands, fiesta.....when moses received the ten commandments with two hands, he went back down the mountain and threw a fiesta with the jews, celebrating the arrival of the commandments.
Koohii Story 2 When Moses returned with the commandments in his hands he saw that his people were throwing a fiesta. At first he was excited. Then he looked around and got pissed. "Awww, c´mon guys. Golden idols? Really?".
RTK Index 676

Tags: jlpt.n1, grades, kanjifreq1001-1500

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