created sense approved 五刑 · wǔxíng · five punishments (historical) — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"
五刑
wǔxíng
five punishments (historical)
The collective name for the five main forms of punishment in historical China, typically referring to either the early mutilating punishments (tattooing, cutting off the nose, amputation of feet, castration, and decapitation) or the later Tang-era system (whipping, beating, penal servitude, exile, and death)
五 (literal) → 五 · wǔ · five 刑 (literal) → 刑 · xíng · punishment
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created sense approved 五刑 · wǔxíng · five punishments (modern) — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"
五刑
wǔxíng
five punishments (modern)
The five categories of punishment under modern criminal law: fine, detention, fixed-term imprisonment, life imprisonment, and the death penalty
五 (literal) → 五 · wǔ · five 刑 (literal) → 刑 · xíng · punishment
Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition