洗冤集录

Traditional form:

洗冤集錄

Pinyin (reading):

Xǐyuān Jílù

Definitions:

• "Collected Cases of Injustice Rectified" (1247) by Song Ci 宋慈 ( Sòng Cí), said to be the world's first forensic science text

Characters:

• 洗 - to bathe, to rinse, to wash
• 冤 - grievance, injustice, wrong
• 集 - to gather, to collect; set, collection
• 录 - to copy, to record, to write down

Traditional characters:

• 洗 - to bathe, to rinse, to wash
• 冤 - grievance, injustice, wrong
• 集 - to gather, to collect; set, collection
• 錄 - to copy, to record, to write down