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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
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Kun readings
NoneWords with 刑
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —儀刑model; pattern; copy
- —徒刑penal servitude
- —銃刑execute by shooting to death (by firing squad)
- —焚刑burning at the stake
- —宮刑second most severe of the five punishments of ancient China (castration for men, confinement for women)
- —腐刑castration
- —絞刑death by hanging
- —五刑five punishments (of ancient China: tattooing, cutting off the nose, cutting off a leg, castration or confinement, death); five punishments (of the ritsuryō system: light caning, severe caning, imprisonment, exile, death)
- —刑部Ministry of Justice (in Tang dynasty China)
- —刑すto punish (esp. with death)
- —笞刑flogging
- —肉刑corporal punishment; punishment by mutilation
- —科刑imposing a punishment
- —行刑execution of a sentence (esp. imprisonment)
- —刑訴criminal action; Code of Criminal Procedure
- —刑務correctional matters (of a crime); prison affairs
- —刑事上penal; criminal
- —刑事犯criminal offense; criminal offence
- —刑務官prison officer; corrections officer; penal officer; prison guard; jailor; warder
- —刑余者ex-convict