死刑缓期执行
Traditional form:
死刑緩期執行
Pinyin (reading):
sǐxínghuǎnqīzhíxíng
Definitions:
- deferred death sentence
- abbr. to 死緩／死缓 (sǐhuǎn)
Characters:
- 死 - dead; death; impassable, inflexible
- 刑 - punishment, penalty; law
- 缓 - slow, gradual; to postpone, to delay
- 期 - a period of time; date, time; phase
- 执 - to execute; to grasp, to hold; to keep; to sieze, to detain
- 行 - to go, to walk, to move; professional
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