noun
brute; violent criminal; savage
Archaic term for a person who commits violent acts; not used in modern Japanese outside historical or literary contexts.
古文書には、凶行人を捕らえたという記録が残っている。
Old documents record that a violent criminal was captured.
Compound of 凶 (bad, evil) and 行人 (traveler, person), literally 'evil person'. The exact historical derivation is uncertain; the term appears in pre-modern texts.