| | branch of study / administrative section / division / field / branch / stage directions / family (taxonomy) / rules / laws / to mete out (punishment) / to levy (taxes etc) / to fine sb / CL: 個|个 | HSK 2 |
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| | to accept (a suggestion, punishment, bribe etc); to acquiesce | HSK 2 |
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| | to receive (praise, an education, punishment etc) / to be ...ed (praised, educated, punished etc) | HSK 2 |
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| | palace / temple / castration (as corporal punishment) / first note in pentatonic scale | HSK 6 |
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| | penalty / punishment / to punish | HSK 7-9 |
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| | ink stick / China ink / CL: 塊|块 / corporal punishment consisting of tattooing characters on the victim's forehead | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to make heavier / to emphasize / (of an illness etc) to become more serious / to aggravate (a bad situation) / to increase (a burden, punishment etc) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to punish / punishment / sanctions (incl. economic) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to behead (as form of capital punishment) / to chop | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to reduce or waive (taxes, punishment, rent, tuition etc) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | punishment / penalty / sentence / torture / corporal punishment | |
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| | distinct / clear / orderly / pain / suffering / deciduous bush used in Chinese medicine (genus Vitex) / punishment cane (old) | |
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| | death penalty; capital punishment | |
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| | imperial five punishments of feudal China, up to Han times: tattooing characters on the forehead 墨, cutting off the nose 劓, amputation of one or both feet 刖, castration 宮|宫, execution 大辟 / Han dynasty onwards: whipping 笞, beating the legs and buttocks with rough thorns 杖, forced labor 徒, exile or banishment 流, capital punishment 死 | |
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| | sentence / penalty / punishment | |
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| | to chop sb in half at the waist (capital punishment) / to cut sth in half / to reduce sth by a dramatic margin / to terminate / to cut short | |
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| | the Legalist school of political philosophy, which rose to prominence in the Warring States period (475-221 BC) (The Legalists believed that social harmony could only be attained through strong state control, and advocated for a system of rigidly applied punishments and rewards for specific behaviors.) / a Legalist | |
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| | lit. to bring a bramble and ask for punishment (idiom) / fig. to offer sb a humble apology | |
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| | corporal punishment; to inflict physical punishment on (sb) | |
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| | lit. as sweet as syrup (idiom, from Book of Songs); to endure hardship gladly / a glutton for punishment | |
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| | to pardon / to absolve / to exempt from punishment | |
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| | board / plank / bamboo or birch for corporal punishment | |
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| | old term for the right-falling stroke in Chinese characters (e.g. the last stroke of 大), now called 捺 / sound made by birds (onom.) / (literary) to dismember (form of punishment) / to spread | |
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| | cut off the flesh as punishment | |
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| | extermination of an entire family (ancient Chinese punishment) | |
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| | the lingering death / the death of a thousand cuts (old form of capital punishment) | |
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| | crime and punishment / penalty for a crime | |
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| | to relegate a high official to a minor post in an outlying region (punishment in imperial China) / to banish or exile / (of immortals) to banish from Heaven / to censure / to blame | |
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| | to boil; to brew (tea) / to cook by briefly stir-frying and then mixing in sauce / (old) to boil to death (judicial punishment in ancient times) | |
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| | to keep sth in cold storage / (fig.) to suspend a performer or sports player (as punishment) / to keep sb or sth out of sight until the right moment (e.g. a key player on a sports team) | |
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| | to shield (a miscreant) from punishment, criticism etc / to take sb's side | |
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| | to atone for one's crime / to buy freedom from punishment / redemption / atonement | |
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| | (idiom) to hack (sb) to pieces (punishment in former times) | |
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| | guilty and deserves to be punished (idiom); entirely appropriate chastisement / the punishment fits the crime | |
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| | punishment equipment / torture instrument | |
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| | to behead / capital punishment / desperate struggle / life-and-death | |
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| | strict law / cruel punishment / to carry out cruel law rigorously | |
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| | to banish (to an army post, as a punishment) | |
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| | to dread punishment / afraid of being arrested for a crime | |
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| | to amputate one or both feet (punishment in imperial China) (one of the five mutilating punishments 五刑) | |
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| | flesh lacerated from corporal punishment (idiom) | |
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| | to torture sb using electricity / electrocution (capital punishment) | |
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| | to tear off sb's four limbs and head using five horse-drawn carts (historical form of capital punishment) | |
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| | (idiom) to be so evil that even death would be insufficient punishment | |
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| | castration (archaic punishment) | |
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| | caning (corporal punishment) | |
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| | scalping / to make the head bald (as corporal punishment) | |
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| | xing-ming, a school of thought of the Warring States period associated with Shen Buhai 申不害 / the designation for a punishment | |
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| | to confess one's fault / to accept one's punishment | |
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| | disproportionate punishment / the punishment is harsher than the crime | |
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| | corporal punishment (such as castration or amputation) | |
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| | refrain from going to extremes in meting out punishment / not be too hard on subject | |
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| | cutting off the ears as punishment | |
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| | to tear between chariots (as punishment) | |
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| | torture / cruel corporal punishment | |
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| | corporal punishment consisting of carving and inking characters on the victim's forehead | |
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| | whipping with bamboo strips (as corporal punishment) | |
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| | to arrest for punishment | |
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| | torture / corporal punishment (traditionally involving mutilation or amputation) | |
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| | severe punishment / worst punishment / to torture | |
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| | to be made to stand still as a punishment | |
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| | amputation of limbs as corporal punishment / variant of 腓, calf | |
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| | to seize and send (to court, to face punishment) | |
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| | indiscriminate punishment | |
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| | exile (as form of punishment) | |
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| | to tattoo the face / face tattoo / to brand (ancient punishment) | |
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| | to accept punishment | |
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| | beating with wooden staves (as corporal punishment) | |
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| | corporal punishment | |
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| | Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821-1881), great Russian novelist, author of Crime and Punishment 罪與罰|罪与罚 | |
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| | to make a student write sth out many times, as a punishment / writing lines | |
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| | (literary) corporal punishment or execution | |
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| | major punishment (law) | |
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| | to let sb off (punishment, taxation etc) / to reprieve sb | |
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| | to tattoo the face (punishment in ancient times) | |
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| | to avoid suffering / to prevent (sth bad) / to protect against (damage) / immunity (from prosecution) / freedom (from pain, damage etc) / exempt from punishment | |
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| | removal of the kneecaps (punishment) | |
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| | person being executed / victim of corporal punishment / person serving a sentence | |
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| | forced labor (as punishment in criminal case) | |
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| | ancient banquet game of throwing arrows into a pot, the winner determined by the number of arrows thrown in, and the loser required to drink as punishment | |
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| | to face the wall and ponder about one's misdeeds / to stand in the corner (punishment) / (fig.) to examine one's conscience | |
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| | to execute all of sb's relatives (as punishment) (old) | |
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| | castration (a form of punishment during the Han period) | |
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| | heavenly punishment / king's punishment | |
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| | lit. to kill a chicken in front of a monkey; fig. to make an example of sb (by punishment) to frighten others | |
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| | legal sanction / prescribed punishment / punishable by law | |
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| | to flee to escape punishment / to abscond from justice | |
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| | to execute all of sb's relatives (as punishment) (old) | |
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| | lit. stocks and knives / fig. any punishment equipment / torture instrument | |
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| | (law) to exempt from punishment | |
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| | office of punishment / torture chamber (esp. unofficial) | |
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| | to be forced to grind grain as a punishment (old) | |
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| | (idiom) (literary) to deserve what one gets (punishment, mishap etc) | |
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| | custody and reeducation (administrative punishment for prostitutes) | |
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| | to inflict (punishment) / to provide (training etc) / to apply (pressure etc) | |
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| | to execute all of sb's relatives (as punishment) (old) | |
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| | lit. stocks and knives / fig. any punishment equipment / torture instrument | |
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| | to sink sb to the bottom of a pond (a kind of private punishment, especially for unfaithful wives) | |
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| | to weight sth with lead / (of a die) loaded / to pour molten lead into the mouth (as a punishment) | |
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| | to commit suicide to escape punishment | |
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