Keyword
criminal punishment
Info
FrequencyTop 1000-1100
Type
Jōyō 
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KankenLevel 3
Heisig734
Readings
けい
(99%)
Composed of
oriental lantern
knife
Used in kanji (2 in total)
model
brier
Used in vocabulary (161 in total)
(police) detective; criminal matter
death penalty; capital punishment
penalty; sentence; punishment
prison; jail; gaol; penitentiary
criminal condemned to death; convict on death row
(criminal) punishment; penalty; sentence
capital punishment; death penalty; maximum penalty; ultimate punishment
prisoner; convict
recommended sentence; prosecution's demand for punishment
criminal law; penal code
public execution; public embarrassment
prison officer; corrections officer; penal officer; prison guard; jailor; warder
prison term
unsuspended prison sentence; prison sentence with no stay of execution
scaffold; gallows
place of execution; execution site
prison sentence (without a stay of execution)
reduction of penalty; commutation of a sentence
punishment without a legal trial; vigilantism
place of execution
life imprisonment; life sentence
police drama (television); detective drama
death by hanging; execution by hanging
burning at the stake; execution by burning
judge's sentence; assessment of a case
to sentence; to assign a penalty
criminal complaint; lodging a criminal complaint (against someone)
exile; banishment; deportation
criminal punishment; criminal penalty
jail sentence; imprisonment
Ministry of Justice (in Tang dynasty China)
financial penalty; fine
crucifixion
scaffold; gallows
criminal punishment; criminal procedure
(penalty of) imprisonment
International Criminal Police Organization; Interpol
(penalty of) imprisonment
criminal prosecution; criminal indictment
execution; death by execution
penal labour; work assigned to prisoners
executioner
penal servitude
maximum punishment; maximum sentence
plainclothes police officer; plain-clothes detective
juvenile prison; juvenile corrective institution
indeterminate sentence
execution by tying a victim to a post and stabbing with spears; crucifixion
(police) detective
statutory penalty
criminal police; detective force
correctional matters (of a crime); prison affairs
abolition of the death penalty; abolition of capital punishment
divine punishment
definite term (of a prison sentence)
crack detective
instruments of punishment
heavy sentence
criminal jurisprudence
place of execution
execution of a sentence (esp. imprisonment)
life imprisonment
criminal offense; criminal offence
severe punishment
penal detention facility
second most severe of the five punishments of ancient China (castration for men, confinement for women)
severe punishment
accused; defendant; prisoner at the bar
closing argument and sentencing recommendation (of a prosecutor)
corporal punishment; punishment by mutilation
corporal punishment; physical punishment; prison sentence; penal servitude; imprisonment with hard labour
criminal investigation
burning at the stake
to take the law into one's own hands
person in exile; deportee; exile
nulla poena sine lege; no punishment without law
lingchi (form of torture and execution used in China); slow slicing; death by a thousand cuts
Ministry of Justice (1869-1871); Ministry of Justice (under the ritsuryō system)
criminal action; Code of Criminal Procedure
Hansen's disease; leprosy
military criminal law
criminal condemned to death; convict on death row
criminal condemned to death; convict on death row
Code of Criminal Procedure
freedom-restricting punishment; imprisonment
punishment; penalty; execution
death by hanging
supplementary punishment
Saikyō; one of the eight gods of the traditional calendar
corporal punishment; physical punishment
assessment of a penalty; determination of a sentence; degree of punishment; sentencing
penalty designations
having served time in prison; ex-convict; (arch.) eunuch
execute by shooting to death (by firing squad)
adding a penalty to a crime (e.g. fines, prison); penalizing a crime
theory of retribution; retributivism; retributive justice
being jealous of someone over something but also thinking they should be sentenced to death over it (esp. of male teachers having sexual relations with their students)
jail; prison; punishment
financial penalty; pecuniary punishment
stripping of honours (as a means of punishment); stripping of rights; public humiliation
castration
Act on Penal Detention Facilities and the Treatment of Inmates and Detainees
criminal court; Crown Court (UK)
cops and robbers (hide-and-seek game)
cops and robbers (hide-and-seek game)
five punishments (of ancient China: tattooing, cutting off the nose, cutting off a leg, castration or confinement, death); five punishments (of the ritsuryō system: light caning, severe caning, imprisonment, exile, death)
supplementary punishment
being jealous of someone over something but also thinking they should be sentenced to death over it (esp. of male teachers having sexual relations with their students)
being jealous of someone over something but also thinking they should be sentenced to death over it (esp. of male teachers having sexual relations with their students)
criminal law books
condemned person; prisoner
criminal law
principal penalty
tattooing (as a form of punishment in ancient China)
model; pattern; copy
to punish (esp. with death)
to punish (esp. with death)
stoning (punishment)
discretionary sentence; discretionary penalty
imposing a punishment
retributivism; retributive justice; principle of punitive justice; belief that crimes deserve suitable punishment
sending (someone) to prison
criminal investigation division (of a police department); criminal affairs section; detective division
execution by a firing squad
criminal investigation department; criminal investigation bureau
Examples (94 in total)
The detective promised to look into the matter right away.
He is a detective.
The man aimed a gun at the detective.