刑
Meanings
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- 1.surname Xing
- 1.punishment
- 2.penalty
- 3.sentence
- 4.torture
- 5.corporal punishment
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Wiktionary
- 1.penalty; sentence; punishment
- 2.corporal punishment; torture
- 3.to slaughter; to massacre
- 4.model; example
- 5.to set an example; to follow an example
- 6.a surname, Xing
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Etymology
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *ɡeːŋ): phonetic 井 (OC *skeŋʔ) + semantic 刀. Originally written as 㓝, the 井 later corrupted into 幵 (OC *kŋeːn), forming 𠛬.
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Stroke order
Components
Components from cjk-decomp · MIT
Example sentences
湯姆正在緩刑中。
Tom is on probation.
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Synonyms
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Derived terms
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Related words
刑事 criminal; penal刑法 criminal law笞刑 whipping with bamboo strips (as corporal punishment)服刑 to serve a prison sentence水刑 water-boarding (torture)五刑 imperial five punishments of feudal China, up to Han times: tattooing characters on the forehead 墨[mò], cutting off the nose 劓[yì], amputation of one or both feet 刖[yuè], castration 宫[gōng], execution 大辟[dà pì]宫刑 castration (archaic punishment)刑戮 (literary) corporal punishment or execution刑场 execution ground腐刑 castration (a form of punishment during the Han period)刑拘 to detain as criminal刑杖 rod used for flogging offenders