xíng​bù​shàng​dà​fū

high officials are exempt from corporal punishment

  1. xíng nounverb
    punishment
    (bound form) punishment; penalty; criminal sentence; corporal punishment or torture
  2. adverb
    not
    Negative adverb used before verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs to indicate negation; also used as a bound-form prefix to form terms with opposite meanings
  3. shàng particleverb
    to apply
    to put on; to paint; to fix or install; to screw or wind up
  4. senior official
    senior official in imperial China; a rank below the high ministers but above the scholar-officials