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Pīnyīn
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  *刑* | 刑* | *刑
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  *刑* | 刑* | *刑
punishment / penalty / sentence / torture / corporal punishment
to reduce penalty / shortened or commuted (judicial) sentence
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
torture / cruel corporal punishment
limited term of imprisonment (i.e. anything less than life imprisonment)
to sentence (to prison etc)
beaten / tortured / executed
to torture sb using electricity / electrocution (capital punishment)
strict law / cruel punishment / to carry out cruel law rigorously
to be punished
to serve a prison sentence
stoning (execution method)
suspended sentence / probation
castration (archaic punishment)
water-boarding (torture)
indiscriminate punishment
exile (as form of punishment)
cruelty; torture
prison sentence
to sentence / to condemn
death penalty; capital punishment
to carry out a (death) sentence / execution
crucifiction
severe punishment / worst punishment / to torture
squeezing the fingers between sticks (old form of torture)
crime and punishment / penalty for a crime
facing execution
(law) to determine the sentence
corporal punishment (such as castration or amputation)
castration (a form of punishment during the Han period)
corporal punishment consisting of carving and inking characters on the victim's forehead
removal of the kneecaps (punishment)
caning (corporal punishment)
torture / corporal punishment (traditionally involving mutilation or amputation)
life imprisonment
whipping with bamboo strips (as corporal punishment)
(law) deprivation of freedom
to sentence (a criminal)
supreme penalty / execution
to execute by hanging
execution by fire / burning at the stake
beating with wooden staves (as corporal punishment)
corporal punishment


Tip: Pinyin can be entered with or without tone numbers, e.g. 'nihao' or 'ni3hao3'.
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