刑 (xíng)
punishment/penalty/sentence
How 刑 is written
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- 一 — one
- Traditional
- 刑
- Simplified
- 刑 (unchanged)
Components
- 一 one
- 廾 N/A
- 刂 knife
Common words using 刑
- 刑事 xíngshì
- criminal; penal
- 刑警 xíngjǐng
- abbr. for 刑事警察[xing2 shi4 jing3 cha2]; criminal police
- 死刑 sǐxíng
- death penalty
- 刑場 xíngchǎng
- execution ground; gallows; scaffold
- 刑法 xíngfǎ
- criminal law
- 刑罰 xíngfá
- sentence; penalty; punishment
- 判刑 pànxíng
- sentence (to prison etc)
- 徒刑 túxíng
- prison sentence
- 獲刑 huòxíng
- to be punished
- 緩刑 huǎnxíng
- stay of execution; suspended prison sentence; reprieve
- 酷刑 kùxíng
- cruelty; torture
- 量刑 liàngxíng
- to assess punishment; to determine the sentence (on a criminal)
刑 in a sentence
他因為犯罪被判了重刑。
Tā yīnwèi fànzuì bèi pànle zhòngxíng.
“He was given a heavy sentence for committing a crime.”
How common is 刑?
刑 is the 1,085th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 90.4% of all running text.
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