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charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *科* | 科* | *科
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
to accept (a suggestion, punishment, bribe etc); to acquiesce
HSK 2
to receive (praise, an education, punishment etc) / to be ...ed (praised, educated, punished etc)
HSK 2
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *宫* | 宫* | *宫
palace / temple / castration (as corporal punishment) / first note in pentatonic scale
HSK 6
penalty / punishment / to punish
HSK 7-9
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *墨* | 墨* | *墨
ink stick / China ink / CL: 塊|块 / corporal punishment consisting of tattooing characters on the victim's forehead
HSK 7-9
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
to punish / punishment / sanctions (incl. economic)
HSK 7-9
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *斩* | 斩* | *斩
to behead (as form of capital punishment) / to chop
HSK 7-9
to reduce or waive (taxes, punishment, rent, tuition etc)
HSK 7-9
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *刑* | 刑* | *刑
punishment / penalty / sentence / torture / corporal punishment
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *楚* | 楚* | *楚
distinct / clear / orderly / pain / suffering / deciduous bush used in Chinese medicine (genus Vitex) / punishment cane (old)
death penalty; capital punishment
imperial five punishments of feudal China, up to Han times: tattooing characters on the forehead , cutting off the nose , amputation of one or both feet , castration 宮|宫, execution 大辟 / Han dynasty onwards: whipping , beating the legs and buttocks with rough thorns , forced labor , exile or banishment , capital punishment
sentence / penalty / punishment
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
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
lit. to bring a bramble and ask for punishment (idiom) / fig. to offer sb a humble apology
corporal punishment; to inflict physical punishment on (sb)
lit. as sweet as syrup (idiom, from Book of Songs); to endure hardship gladly / a glutton for punishment
to pardon / to absolve / to exempt from punishment
board / plank / bamboo or birch for corporal punishment
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *磔* | 磔* | *磔
old term for the right-falling stroke in Chinese characters (e.g. the last stroke of ), now called / sound made by birds (onom.) / (literary) to dismember (form of punishment) / to spread
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *剐* | 剐* | *剐
cut off the flesh as punishment
extermination of an entire family (ancient Chinese punishment)
the lingering death / the death of a thousand cuts (old form of capital punishment)
crime and punishment / penalty for a crime
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *谪* | 谪* | *谪
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
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *烹* | 烹* | *烹
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)
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)
to shield (a miscreant) from punishment, criticism etc / to take sb's side
to atone for one's crime / to buy freedom from punishment / redemption / atonement
(idiom) to hack (sb) to pieces (punishment in former times)
guilty and deserves to be punished (idiom); entirely appropriate chastisement / the punishment fits the crime
punishment equipment / torture instrument
to behead / capital punishment / desperate struggle / life-and-death
strict law / cruel punishment / to carry out cruel law rigorously
to banish (to an army post, as a punishment)
to dread punishment / afraid of being arrested for a crime
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *刖* | 刖* | *刖
to amputate one or both feet (punishment in imperial China) (one of the five mutilating punishments 五刑)
flesh lacerated from corporal punishment (idiom)
to torture sb using electricity / electrocution (capital punishment)
to tear off sb's four limbs and head using five horse-drawn carts (historical form of capital punishment)
(idiom) to be so evil that even death would be insufficient punishment
castration (archaic punishment)
caning (corporal punishment)
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *髡* | 髡* | *髡
scalping / to make the head bald (as corporal punishment)
xing-ming, a school of thought of the Warring States period associated with Shen Buhai 申不害 / the designation for a punishment
to confess one's fault / to accept one's punishment
disproportionate punishment / the punishment is harsher than the crime
corporal punishment (such as castration or amputation)
refrain from going to extremes in meting out punishment / not be too hard on subject
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *刵* | 刵* | *刵
cutting off the ears as punishment
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *轘* | 轘* | *轘
to tear between chariots (as punishment)
torture / cruel corporal punishment
corporal punishment consisting of carving and inking characters on the victim's forehead
whipping with bamboo strips (as corporal punishment)
to arrest for punishment
torture / corporal punishment (traditionally involving mutilation or amputation)
severe punishment / worst punishment / to torture
to be made to stand still as a punishment
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *剕* | 剕* | *剕
amputation of limbs as corporal punishment / variant of , calf
to seize and send (to court, to face punishment)
indiscriminate punishment
exile (as form of punishment)
to tattoo the face / face tattoo / to brand (ancient punishment)
to accept punishment
beating with wooden staves (as corporal punishment)
corporal punishment
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821-1881), great Russian novelist, author of Crime and Punishment 罪與罰|罪与罚
to make a student write sth out many times, as a punishment / writing lines
(literary) corporal punishment or execution
major punishment (law)
to let sb off (punishment, taxation etc) / to reprieve sb
to tattoo the face (punishment in ancient times)
to avoid suffering / to prevent (sth bad) / to protect against (damage) / immunity (from prosecution) / freedom (from pain, damage etc) / exempt from punishment
removal of the kneecaps (punishment)
person being executed / victim of corporal punishment / person serving a sentence
forced labor (as punishment in criminal case)
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
to face the wall and ponder about one's misdeeds / to stand in the corner (punishment) / (fig.) to examine one's conscience
to execute all of sb's relatives (as punishment) (old)
castration (a form of punishment during the Han period)
heavenly punishment / king's punishment
lit. to kill a chicken in front of a monkey; fig. to make an example of sb (by punishment) to frighten others
legal sanction / prescribed punishment / punishable by law
to flee to escape punishment / to abscond from justice
to execute all of sb's relatives (as punishment) (old)
lit. stocks and knives / fig. any punishment equipment / torture instrument
(law) to exempt from punishment
office of punishment / torture chamber (esp. unofficial)
to be forced to grind grain as a punishment (old)
(idiom) (literary) to deserve what one gets (punishment, mishap etc)
custody and reeducation (administrative punishment for prostitutes)
to inflict (punishment) / to provide (training etc) / to apply (pressure etc)
to execute all of sb's relatives (as punishment) (old)
lit. stocks and knives / fig. any punishment equipment / torture instrument
to sink sb to the bottom of a pond (a kind of private punishment, especially for unfaithful wives)
to weight sth with lead / (of a die) loaded / to pour molten lead into the mouth (as a punishment)
to commit suicide to escape punishment

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