獄 (yù)
prison/jail
How 獄 is written
- Strokes
- 14
- Radical
- 犭 — dog
- Traditional
- 獄
- Simplified
- 狱
Components
- 犭 dog
- 言 speech
- 犬 dog
Common words using 獄
- 地獄 dìyù
- hell; infernal; underworld
- 越獄 yuèyù
- to break out of prison
- 入獄 rùyù
- to go to jail; to be sent to prison
- 監獄 jiānyù
- prison
- 典獄長 diǎnyùzhǎng
- warden
- 冤獄 yuānyù
- unjust charge or verdict; miscarriage of justice; frame-up
- 出獄 chūyù
- leave prison
- 劫獄 jiéyù
- to break into jail; to forcibly release prisoners
- 大獄 dàyù
- jail; prison
- 煉獄 liànyù
- purgatory
- 牢獄 láoyù
- prison
- 越獄犯 yuèyùfàn
- escaped prisoner
獄 in a sentence
他因為偷東西進了監獄。
Tā yīnwèi tōu dōngxi jìnle jiānyù.
“He went to prison for stealing.”
How common is 獄?
獄 is the 1,595th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 95.2% of all running text.
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