Applied Kanji Lesson 2: 馬 駐 車 林 示 禁 止

In this post I'll be trying to read a street sign above. :)

I see a white helmet UN peacekeeper under a great stress. His yellow face may be a result of Hepatitis A-type. Also there are 4 vertical red ink kanji. Does he warn me on hepatits pandemy danger!?

Or may this be a no-parking sign? Let's see...

馬

• horse
• バ ba
  
• うま、ま uma, ma

主

This one I already know.

• master; lord; chief; owner; main thing; principal matter
• シュ、ス shu, su
  
• ぬし、おも nushi, omo

駐

• stop; stay; resident
• チュウ chu
  
• *

Master's Horse Stop. Hm... Parking?

The next one is:

車

• car; vehicle; automobile; wheel
• シャ sha
  
• くるま kuruma

Looks like an electric motor with two coaxial wheels when looking from above. How did they know? Strangely it's also a chariot.

駐車 ?

Chusha... chariot stop ... Car Parking... I think it's a Parking Lot!

林

• woods; forest; grove
• リン rin
• はやし hayashi
• 
  

示

• indicate; show; point out; express; display
• ジ、シ
• しめ.す

"T" was a primitive altar sign. / \ was for blood drops. A stroke above an altar was for sacrifice items that placed on the altar. So originally this kanji "show" was an "outcome of the sacrifice showing the will of gods".

禁

means: Altar in forbidden forest. Or, religious taboo, or in modern words:

• prohibition; ban; forbid
• キン kin
  
• *

駐車禁 ?

Chusha kin... I'm 100% sure that I can't stop my horse chariot in a forbidden forest.

So what is the last one about?

止

• stop; halt; end
• シ shi
  
• と.まる、と.める tomaru, tomeru

It really resembles injured legs to me.

I'm done:

駐車禁止

Chusha kin shi

Two stops - stop at the beginning and stop at the end. I think I can skip first stop and read the first kanji as "horse master", not as a "horse master stop".
Horse Master! Don't stop your chariot in a forbidden forest!

In fact, 駐車 in the beginning is a "parking/parking lot".
So alltogether: Parking Is Prohibited!

I've learned 7 more kanji: 馬 駐 車 林 示 禁 止 !