诫
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commandment; to prohibit
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 言 +7
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 誡
- Common rank
- #3,264
- Unicode
- U+8BEB
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Formation & memory
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How 诫 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
Words 讠 of warning 戒; 戒 also provides the pronunciation
How to remember it
warn · Heisig RSH #1870
words + 戒 take precautions against
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 诫
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 小惩大诫 | lit. to punish a little to prevent a lot (idiom); to criticize former mistakes firmly to p… | |
| 诫命 | commandment | |
| 十诫 | ten commandments | |
| 告诫 | to warn; to admonish | |
| 警诫 | variant of 警戒[jing3 jie4] | |
| 规诫 | to warn (against some course); to admonish | |
| 训诫 | to reprimand; to admonish; to lecture sb | |
| 劝诫 | to exhort; to admonish | |
| 谆谆告诫 | to repeatedly advise sb earnestly (idiom); to admonish |