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犯 kanji
crime, sin, offense
- JLPT level
- N3 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 5
- School grade
- Grade 5 (elementary school)
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Words with 犯
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —凶悪犯人heinous criminal; vicious criminal
- —間接正犯indirect principal offender; indirect perpetrator; principal offender in the second degree
- —直接正犯direct principal offender; direct perpetrator; principal offender in the first degree
- —犯罪組織crime syndicate; criminal syndicate
- —非犯罪死death not caused by a violent crime (excl. dying of natural causes)
- —現行犯人flagrant offender
- —政治犯罪political crime; political offence
- —戦時犯罪war crime
- —犯人探しsearching for the culprit; trying to find out who did something
- —共犯証言state's evidence; crown evidence
- —犯人隠避(crime of) aiding a criminal to avoid capture
- —犯行声明claim of responsibility (e.g. for a bombing)
- —再犯防止recidivism prevention
- —犯罪被害criminal damage
- —環境犯罪environmental crime
- —犯罪集団criminal organization; organized crime group
- —職務犯罪criminal abuse of power; crimes committed by public officials in violation of their duties
- —犯行予告advance notice of (intent to commit) a crime
- —防犯ベルburglar alarm; personal alarm
- —犯罪小説crime novel; crime fiction