Chinese Dictionary

Usage of the character 刑

punishment
penalty
sentence
torture
corporal punishment

surname Xing

sentence
penalty
punishment

criminal investigation

criminal police (abbr. for 刑事警察 (xíngshìjǐngchá))

caning (corporal punishment)

severe punishment
worst punishment
to torture

supreme penalty
execution

castration (archaic punishment)

torture
cruel corporal punishment

cruelty; torture

exile (as form of punishment)

suspended sentence
probation

strict law
cruel punishment
to carry out cruel law rigorously

xing-ming, a school of thought of the Warring States period associated with Shen Buhai 申不害 ( Shēn Buhài)
the designation for a punishment

castration (a form of punishment during the Han period)

stoning (execution method)

prison term

execution ground

beaten
tortured
executed

crime and punishment
penalty for a crime

to humiliate by torture

execution by fire
burning at the stake

torture
corporal punishment (traditionally involving mutilation or amputation)

to sentence
to condemn

to be forced to grind grain as a punishment (old)

facing execution

criminal to be executed
to execute a criminal

criminal law

Ministry of Justice (in imperial China)

criminal; penal

to be punished

corporal punishment (such as castration or amputation)

prison sentence

water-boarding (torture)

to be punished

rod used for flogging offenders

corporal punishment

to sentence (a criminal)

criminal law

criminal case

to complete a prison sentence

whipping with bamboo strips (as corporal punishment)

removal of the kneecaps (punishment)

to torture sb using electricity
electrocution (capital punishment)

to carry out a (death) sentence
execution

to reduce penalty
shortened or commuted (judicial) sentence

interrogation under torture
inquisition

to detain as criminal
criminal detention
abbr. for 刑事拘留 (xíngshìjūliú)

Xingtian, headless giant hero of Chinese mythology decapitated by the Yellow Emperor 黃帝／黄帝 ( Huángdì)

criminal court (abbr. for 刑事法庭 (xingshífǎting))

punishment equipment
torture instrument

to extort confession by torture

(literary) corporal punishment or execution

corporal punishment consisting of carving and inking characters on the victim's forehead

office of punishment
torture chamber (esp. unofficial)

squeezing the fingers between sticks (old form of torture)

legal net
the long arm of the law

to serve a prison sentence

beating with wooden staves (as corporal punishment)

death penalty; capital punishment

to sentence (to prison etc)

to execute by hanging

to assess punishment
to determine the sentence (on a criminal)

torture chamber

indiscriminate punishment

imperial five punishments of feudal China, up to Han times: tattooing characters on the forehead 墨 (mò), cutting off the nose 劓 (yì), amputation of one or both feet 刖 (yuè), castration 宮／宫 (gōng), execution 大辟 (dàpì)
Han dynasty onwards: whipping 笞 (chī), beating the legs and buttocks with rough thorns 杖 (zhàng), forced labor 徒 (tú), exile or banishment 流 (liú), capital punishment 死 (sǐ)

person being executed
victim of corporal punishment
person serving a sentence

gibbet
hanging post

Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB)

criminal procedure
abbr. for 刑事訴訟法／刑事诉讼法

a criminal

(law) deprivation of freedom

firing squad

xíngshìjūliú

to detain as criminal
criminal detention

yǒuqītúxíng

limited term of imprisonment (i.e. anything less than life imprisonment)

kùxíngzhémó

torture and cruel treatment

xíngmíngzhīxué

xing-ming, a school of thought of the Warring States period associated with Shen Buhai 申不害 ( Shēn Bùhài)

yánxíngkǎodǎ

torture
interrogation by torture

xíngshìfànzuì

criminal offense

xíngshìfǎtíng

criminal court

life imprisonment

shízìjiàxíng

crucifiction

xíngshìfǎyuàn

criminal court
judiciary court

xíngshìjǐngchá

criminal police
member of the criminal police

shuǐxíngbīgòng

water-boarding, interrogation technique used by CIA

Xíngshì Jǐngchájú

刑事警察局

[刑事警察局]

Criminal Investigation Bureau

xíngshìsùsòngfǎ

刑事诉讼法

[刑事訴訟法]

criminal procedure

xíngshìshěnpàntíng

刑事审判庭

[刑事審判庭]

criminal court

sǐxínghuǎnqīzhíxíng

死刑缓期执行

[死刑緩期執行]

deferred death sentence
abbr. to 死緩／死缓 (sǐhuǎn)

Guójì Xíngjǐng Zǔzhī

国际刑警组织

[國際刑警組織]

Interpol (International Criminal Police Organization)

Oūzhōu Xíngjǐng Zǔzhī

欧洲刑警组织

[歐洲刑警組織]

Europol (European Police Office)

fǎnkùxíngzhémógōngyuē

反酷刑折磨公约

[反酷刑折磨公約]

UN convention against torture and cruel treatment (ratified by PRC in 1988)

Guójì Xíngshì Jǐngchá Zǔzhī

国际刑事警察组织

[國際刑事警察組織]

International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol)