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しけい
Meanings
Noun
1. death penalty; capital punishment
Alt. forms
死し刑けい
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しけい
Pitch accent
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Composed of
death; (an) out; death penalty (by strangulation or decapitation; most severe of the five ritsuryō punishments)
penalty; sentence; punishment
Used in vocabulary (11 in total)
criminal condemned to death; convict on death row
execution
death sentence
death sentence
scaffold; gallows
capital punishment
place of execution
abolition of the death penalty; abolition of capital punishment
criminal condemned to death; convict on death row
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)
executioner
Examples (8 in total)
I'm against the death penalty.
The accused was sentenced to death.
The judge condemned him to death.
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