- okite law, regulation, rule, code, agreement, arrangement, compact
Used for traditional or unwritten rules of a group, not formal laws; appears in fiction and serious speech.
村の掟を守らなければならない。
Mura no okite o mamoranakereba naranai.
We must obey the village's rules.
それはギルドの掟に反する。
Sore wa girudo no okite ni hansuru.
That violates the guild's code.
⚖️ Different from 法律 (hōritsu), which means official national law; 掟 refers to group or traditional rules.
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