刑

Meaning

刑 centers on the legal consequences of wrongdoing: punishment, penalties, and sentencing. It covers the formal infliction of a penalty by authority.

• 刑事けいじ
  N3

  (police) detective

• 刑事でか

  (police) detective

• 死刑しけい
  N1

  death penalty; capital punishment

• 処刑しょけい
  N1

  execution

• 刑務所けいむしょ
  N1

  prison; jail; gaol; penitentiary

• 刑けい
  N1

  penalty; sentence; punishment

• 刑法けいほう

  criminal law; penal code

• 刑罰けいばつ
  N1

  (criminal) punishment; penalty; sentence

• 受刑じゅけい

  punishment

• 実刑じっけい

  prison sentence (without a stay of execution)

• 刑期けいき

  prison term

• 求刑きゅうけい

  recommended sentence; prosecution's demand for punishment

• 減刑げんけい

  reduction of penalty; commutation of a sentence

• 絞首刑こうしゅけい

  death by hanging; execution by hanging

• 量刑りょうけい

  judge's sentence; assessment of a case

• 刑務けいむ

  correctional matters (of a crime); prison affairs

• 刑部けいぶ

  Ministry of Justice (in Tang dynasty China)

• 流刑りゅうけい

  exile; banishment; deportation

• 私刑しけい

  punishment without a legal trial; vigilantism

• 極刑きょっけい

  capital punishment; death penalty; maximum penalty; ultimate punishment

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