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刑 kanji
punish, penalty, sentence, punishment
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 6
- School grade
- Secondary school
On readings
ケイ
Kun readings
NoneWords with 刑
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —刑死execution; death by execution
- —刑場place of execution
- —刑典criminal law books
- —刑徒condemned person; prisoner
- —刑名penalty designations
- —刑余having served time in prison; ex-convict; eunuch
- —刑吏executioner
- —刑律criminal law
- —刑戮punishment; penalty; execution
- —厳刑severe punishment
- —減刑reduction of penalty; commutation of a sentence
- —酷刑severe punishment
- —私刑punishment without a legal trial; vigilantism
- —主刑principal penalty
- —重刑heavy sentence
- —体刑corporal punishment; physical punishment; prison sentence; penal servitude; imprisonment with hard labour
- —天刑divine punishment
- —流刑exile; banishment; deportation
- —磔刑crucifixion
- —墨刑tattooing (as a form of punishment in ancient China)