掟 — 11 strokes ／ Radical「扌」
道1University / general (hardest) ／ 11 strokes ／ Radical「扌」
- On
- トウ・チョウ・ジョウ・テイ
- Kun
- おきて
- Meaning
- a rule
Origin
Hand 扌 with 定 as phonetic; in Japan it writes the rule laid down within a group.
Stroke order
Compounds
- 掟おきて
a rule; a code
- 掟破りおきてやぶり
breaking the rules
Example
村の掟は厳しく守られていた。
The village code was strictly kept.
Stroke data from: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)