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 (144 in total)
(police) detective; criminal matter
death penalty; capital punishment
penalty; sentence; punishment
prison; penitentiary
(criminal) punishment; penalty; sentence
capital punishment; death penalty; maximum penalty; ultimate punishment
criminal condemned to death; convict on death row
scaffold; gallows
place of execution; execution site
prison officer; corrections officer; penal officer; prison guard; jailor; warder
prison term
prisoner; convict
punishment without a legal trial; vigilantism
criminal law; penal code
place of execution
reduction of penalty; commutation of a sentence
police drama (television); detective drama
death by hanging; execution by hanging
burning at the stake; execution by burning
to sentence; to assign a penalty
Ministry of Justice (in Tang-dynasty China)
exile; banishment; deportation
prison sentence (without a stay of execution)
life imprisonment; life sentence
crucifixion
recommended sentence; prosecution's demand for punishment
scaffold; gallows
judge's sentence; assessment of a case
(penalty of) imprisonment
jail sentence; imprisonment
execution; death by execution
executioner
unsuspended prison sentence; prison sentence with no stay of execution
criminal punishment; criminal penalty
penal servitude
financial penalty; fine
penal labour; work assigned to prisoners
criminal complaint; lodging a criminal complaint (against someone)
plainclothes police officer; plain-clothes detective
juvenile prison; juvenile corrective institution
divine punishment
instruments of punishment
crack detective
maximum punishment; maximum sentence
place of execution
heavy sentence
execution of a sentence (esp. imprisonment)
criminal offense; criminal offence
severe punishment
(penalty of) imprisonment
corporal punishment; punishment by mutilation
life imprisonment
severe punishment
second most severe of the five punishments of ancient China (castration for men, confinement for women)
criminal jurisprudence
criminal punishment; criminal procedure
indeterminate sentence
corporal punishment; physical punishment; prison sentence; penal servitude; imprisonment with hard labour
abolition of the death penalty; abolition of capital punishment
accused; defendant; prisoner at the bar
burning at the stake
closing argument and sentencing recommendation (of a prosecutor)
to take the law into one's own hands
Ministry of Justice (1869-1871 CE); Ministry of Justice (under the ritsuryo system)
criminal action; Criminal Procedure Code
Hansen's disease; leprosy
execution by tying a victim to a post and stabbing with spears; crucifixion
criminal condemned to death; convict on death row
criminal investigation
nulla poena sine lege; no punishment without law
Criminal Procedure Code
definite term (of a prison sentence)
punishment; penalty; execution
criminal condemned to death; convict on death row
supplementary punishment
freedom-restricting punishment; imprisonment
death by hanging
penalty designations
statutory penalty
corporal punishment; physical punishment
Saikyō; one of the eight gods of the koyomi
theory of retribution; retributivism; retributive justice
having served time in prison; ex-convict; (arch.) eunuch
being jealous of somebody over something but also thinking they should be sentenced to death over it (esp. of male teachers having sexual relations with their students)
execute by shooting to death (by firing squad)
financial penalty; pecuniary punishment
criminal court; Crown Court (UK)
Act on Penal Detention Facilities and the Treatment of Inmates and Detainees
castration
jail; prison; punishment
stripping of honours (as a means of punishment); stripping of rights; public humiliation
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 ritsuryo system: light caning, severe caning, imprisonment, exile, death)
supplementary punishment
criminal law books
being jealous of somebody 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 somebody over something but also thinking they should be sentenced to death over it (esp. of male teachers having sexual relations with their students)
condemned person; prisoner
criminal law
principal penalty
tattooing (form of punishment in ancient China)
model; pattern; copy
to punish (esp. with death)
to punish (esp. with death)
stoning (punishment)
adding a penalty to a crime (e.g. fines, prison); penalizing a crime
discretionary sentence; discretionary penalty
imposing a punishment
retributivism; retributive justice; principle of punitive justice; belief that crimes deserve suitable punishment
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.