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convict / prisoner / criminal
cart with cage, used to escort prisoner
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *缧* | 缧* | *缧
(literary) thick rope used to restrain a prisoner
Jinguashi, town in Ruifang District, New Taipei City, Taiwan, noted for its historic gold and copper mines, used as a prisoner-of-war camp by the Japanese (1942-1945)
prisoner; convict
HSK 7-9
to detain (as a prisoner); to keep sb in custody
HSK 7-9
prisoner
to beat a prisoner (to obtain confessions) / to give sb the third degree / to torture
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *俘* | 俘* | *俘
to take prisoner / prisoner of war
prisoner of war
to visit a prisoner (usu. a relative or friend)
to release (a prisoner)
lit. to submit to having one's hands tied and being taken prisoner (idiom) / fig. to surrender without a fight
prisoner that awaits execution / convict sentenced to death / someone on death row
to allow in fresh air / to allow a prisoner out for exercise / to give out information
to release for medical treatment (of a prisoner)
to break into jail / to forcibly release prisoners
to be taken prisoner
to imprison / prisoner
to bind up and take to the market (idiom); to take a prisoner to the town center for execution
bird in a basket, monkey in a cage (idiom); prisoner
to release / to set free / to liberate (a prisoner) / to discharge
HSK 7-9
to forbid sb to go out / to confine to one location (e.g. student, soldier, prisoner, monk etc) / to ground (as disciplinary measure) / to gate / to curfew / restriction on movement / ban on visiting a place / out of bounds / off limits / caveat
escaped prisoner
to break a prisoner out of jail
cage used to hold or transport prisoners
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *虏* | 虏* | *虏
prisoner of war / to capture / to take prisoner / (old) northern barbarian / slave
to pursue / to be after / to hunt down (the perpetrator of a crime, an escaped prisoner etc)
to convey (a prisoner or valuable items etc) under escort
to repatriate (e.g. prisoners of war) / to send back
to hold tight / to cling to / to adhere / stubborn / to detain sb as prisoner
to parade (a prisoner) through the streets
imperial prison (for prisoners detained by order of the emperor)
to die of hunger or disease (of a prisoner)
to visit (a patient, prisoner etc) / to look inquiringly
political prisoner
to die of hunger or disease (of a prisoner)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *囚* | 囚* | *囚
prisoner
a flower in a cage, a crane in a basket (idiom); prisoner
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *瘐* | 瘐* | *瘐
to maltreat (as prisoners)
prisoner (Cantonese)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *槛* | 槛* | *槛
banister / balustrade / cage for animal or prisoner / to transport caged prisoner on a cart
to transfer (a patient) to a different hospital / to transfer to hospital (e.g. a prisoner)
prisoner
prisoner of conscience
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *轞* | 轞* | *轞
vehicle for transporting prisoners
Cheng Miao, a jailer-turned-prisoner in the Qin dynasty who created the clerical style of Chinese calligraphy
prison cell containing water, in which prisoners are forced to be partly immersed


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