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  *戒* | 戒* | *戒
to guard against / to exhort / to admonish or warn / to give up or stop doing sth / Buddhist monastic discipline / ring (for a finger)
HSK 5
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien 托爾金|托尔金
to warn / to alert / to be on the alert / to stand guard / sentinel
to go against the rules (of a religious order) / to break a ban (e.g. medical)
diamond ring / CL: 隻|只
Zhu Bajie, character in Journey to the West 西遊記|西游记, with pig-like characteristics and armed with a muckrake / Pigsy in Arthur Waley's translation
to take sth as a warning (idiom) / to draw a lesson from a case where things turned out badly
to force sb to give up (a drug) / to enforce abstinence / to break drug dependence
(Buddhism) to initiate sb for monkhood or nunhood
the eight precepts (Buddhism)
to violate a religious precept / to smoke or drink after giving up
to take oaths as a monk (Buddhism) / to take orders
to warn / to admonish
to fast
to abstain from; to prohibit (certain foods etc)
lesson from events of the past / warning
the ten commandments (religion)
don't blame the speaker, take note of his warning (idiom); an exhortation to speak one's mind without fear of reprisals, and with the expectation of being taken seriously
to end abstinence / to resume (drinking) after a break / to break (a taboo)
variant of 勸誡|劝诫
variant of 規誡|规诫
to try everything to avoid; to guard against
variant of 訓誡|训诫
to serve as a warning (idiom)
signet ring (cell)
variant of 告誡|告诫
to discipline / reprimand


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