- 刑 nounverbpunishment(bound form) punishment; penalty; criminal sentence; corporal punishment or torture
- 不 adverbnotNegative adverb used before verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs to indicate negation; also used as a bound-form prefix to form terms with opposite meanings
- 上 particleverbto applyto put on; to paint; to fix or install; to screw or wind up
- senior officialsenior official in imperial China; a rank below the high ministers but above the scholar-officials