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  *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
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  *宫* | 宫* | *宫
palace / temple / castration (as corporal punishment) / first note in pentatonic scale
HSK 6
(idiom) to tear off sb's four limbs and head using five horse-drawn carts (historical form of capital punishment); (fig.) to tear apart; to utterly destroy; to brutally dismember
to surrender oneself for execution; (fig.) to come forward to take the blame; to face punishment
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  *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
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  *斩* | 斩* | *斩
to behead (as form of capital punishment) / to chop
HSK 7-9
to dread punishment / afraid of being arrested for a crime
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  *刑* | 刑* | *刑
punishment / penalty / sentence / torture / corporal punishment
flesh lacerated from corporal punishment (idiom)
to face the wall and ponder about one's misdeeds / to stand in the corner (punishment) / (fig.) to examine one's conscience
lit. stocks and knives / fig. any punishment equipment / torture instrument
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *轘* | 轘* | *轘
to tear between chariots (as punishment)
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  *楚* | 楚* | *楚
distinct / clear / orderly / pain / suffering / deciduous bush used in Chinese medicine (genus Vitex) / punishment cane (old)
to punish / punishment / sanctions (incl. economic)
HSK 7-9
to reduce or waive (taxes, punishment, rent, tuition etc)
HSK 7-9
removal of the kneecaps (punishment)
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
penalty / punishment / to punish
HSK 7-9
forced labor (as punishment in criminal case)
legal sanction / prescribed punishment / punishable by law
sentence / penalty / punishment
(idiom) to deserve what one gets (punishment, mishap etc)
to accept 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
torture / cruel corporal punishment
person being executed / victim of corporal punishment / person serving a sentence
to inflict (punishment) / to provide (training etc) / to apply (pressure etc)
Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky 陀思妥耶夫斯基
(idiom) to be so evil that even death would be insufficient punishment
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821-1881), great Russian novelist, author of Crime and Punishment 罪與罰|罪与罚 / also written 陀思妥耶夫斯基
major punishment (law)
guilty and deserves to be punished (idiom); entirely appropriate chastisement / the punishment fits the crime
the lingering death / the death of a thousand cuts (old form of capital punishment)
reward and punishment
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
(idiom) to hack (sb) to pieces (punishment in former times)
to tattoo the face / face tattoo / to brand (ancient punishment)
disproportionate punishment / the punishment is harsher than the crime
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821-1881), great Russian novelist, author of Crime and Punishment 罪與罰|罪与罚
indiscriminate punishment
to flee to escape punishment / to abscond from justice
(law) to exempt from punishment
lit. to kill a chicken in front of a monkey; fig. to make an example of sb (by punishment) to frighten others
exile (as form of punishment)
to avoid suffering / to prevent (sth bad) / to protect against (damage) / immunity (from prosecution) / freedom (from pain, damage etc) / exempt from punishment
to behead / capital punishment / desperate struggle / life-and-death
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 arrest for punishment
office of punishment / torture chamber (esp. unofficial)
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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  *髌* | 髌* | *髌
kneecapping / to cut or smash the kneecaps as corporal punishment
(literary) corporal punishment or execution
death penalty; capital punishment
corporal punishment
lit. as sweet as syrup (idiom, from Book of Songs); to endure hardship gladly / a glutton for punishment
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  *剐* | 剐* | *剐
cut off the flesh as punishment
strict law / cruel punishment / to carry out cruel law rigorously
extermination of an entire family (ancient Chinese punishment)
to atone for one's crime / to buy freedom from punishment / redemption / atonement
severe punishment / worst punishment / to torture
flowering autumn grass, fine net (idiom); fig. abundant and exacting punishments prescribed by law
to flog / to cane (as punishment)
to confess one's fault / to accept one's 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 seize and send (to court, to face punishment)
crime and punishment / penalty for a crime
to pardon / to absolve / to exempt from punishment
to shield (a miscreant) from punishment, criticism etc / to take sb's side
corporal punishment; to inflict physical punishment on (sb)
corporal punishment (such as castration or amputation)
board / plank / bamboo or birch for corporal punishment
castration (a form of punishment during the Han period)
refrain from going to extremes in meting out punishment / not be too hard on subject
corporal punishment consisting of carving and inking characters on the victim's forehead
castration (archaic punishment)
lit. stocks and knives / fig. any punishment equipment / torture instrument
to weight sth with lead / (of a die) loaded / to pour molten lead into the mouth (as a punishment)
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  *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
to execute all of sb's relatives (as punishment) (old)
caning (corporal punishment)
to banish (to an army post, as a punishment)
to make a student write sth out many times, as a punishment / writing lines
torture / corporal punishment (traditionally involving mutilation or amputation)
heavenly punishment / king's punishment
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  *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)
lit. to bring a bramble and ask for punishment (idiom) / fig. to offer sb a humble apology
custody and reeducation (administrative punishment for prostitutes)
to sink sb to the bottom of a pond (a kind of private punishment, especially for unfaithful wives)
to let sb off (punishment, taxation etc) / to reprieve sb
whipping with bamboo strips (as corporal punishment)
to commit suicide to escape punishment
to execute all of sb's relatives (as punishment) (old)
to tear off sb's four limbs and head using five horse-drawn carts (historical form of capital punishment)
to tattoo the face (punishment in ancient times)
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  *刵* | 刵* | *刵
cutting off the ears as punishment
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  *刖* | 刖* | *刖
to amputate one or both feet (punishment in imperial China) (one of the five mutilating punishments 五刑)
to be forced to grind grain as a punishment (old)

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