chéng​yì

penal servitude

  • created sense approved 惩役/懲役 · chéng​yì · penal servitude — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    惩役 / 懲役

    chéng​yì

    penal servitude

    hard labor or servitude performed as a form of criminal punishment

    惩 (literal) → 惩/懲 · chéng · to punish 役 (literal) → 役 · yì · corvée

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense