严刑 嚴刑 yán xíng strict law / cruel punishment / to carry out cruel law rigorously syn 体罚 體罰 tǐ fá corporal punishment / to inflict physical punishment on (sb) 刑 xíng punishment / penalty / sentence / torture / corporal punishment syn 板子 bǎn zi board / plank / bamboo or birch for corporal punishment syn 皮开肉绽 皮開肉綻 pí kāi ròu zhàn flesh lacerated from corporal punishment (idiom) syn 肉刑 ròu xíng corporal punishment (such as castration or amputation) 宫 宮 gōng palace / temple / castration (as corporal punishment) / first note in pentatonic scale syn 墨 mò ink stick / China ink / CL:塊|块[kuai4] / corporal punishment consisting of tattooing characters on the victim's forehead syn 髡 kūn scalping / to make the head bald (as corporal punishment) 髌 髕 bìn kneecapping / to cut or smash the kneecaps as corporal punishment syn 刑戮 xíng lù (literary) corporal punishment or execution 剕 fèi amputation of limbs as corporal punishment / variant of 腓, calf 受刑人 shòu xíng rén person being executed / victim of corporal punishment / person serving a sentence 墨刑 mò xíng corporal punishment consisting of carving and inking characters on the victim's forehead 杖刑 zhàng xíng beating with wooden staves (as corporal punishment) 笞刑 chī xíng whipping with bamboo strips (as corporal punishment) 苦刑 kǔ xíng torture / corporal punishment (traditionally involving mutilation or amputation) 体刑 體刑 tǐ xíng corporal punishment 鞭刑 biān xíng caning (corporal punishment) 伊斯坦布尔议定书 伊斯坦布爾議定書 yī sī tǎn bù ěr yì dìng shū Manual on Effective Investigation and Documentation of Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment / Istanbul Protocol 防范小组委员会 防範小組委員會 Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment / Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture 罗本岛指导方针 羅本島指導方針 Guidelines and Measures for the Prohibition and Prevention of Torture, Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment in Africa / Robben Island Guidelines 上刑 shàng xíng severe punishment / worst punishment / to torture syn 天诛 天誅 tiān zhū heavenly punishment / king's punishment 罚不当罪 罰不當罪 fá bù dāng zuì disproportionate punishment / the punishment is harsher than the crime 下士 xià shì lowest-ranked noncommissioned officer (e.g. corporal in the army or petty officer, third class in the navy) 一等兵 yī děng bīng lance corporal 一级士官 一級士官 yī jí shì guān corporal (army) 残酷 殘酷 cán kù cruel / cruelty syn 残忍 殘忍 cán rěn cruel / mean / merciless / ruthless syn 吸血鬼 xī xuè guǐ leech / bloodsucking vermin / vampire (translated European notion) / fig. cruel exploiter, esp. a capitalist exploiting the workers syn 凶狠 xiōng hěn cruel / vicious / fierce and malicious / vengeful syn 毒辣 dú là cruel / sinister / vicious syn 狼心狗肺 láng xīn gǒu fèi lit. heart of wolf and lungs of dog (idiom) / cruel and unscrupulous syn 残虐 殘虐 cán nüè cruel / to treat cruelly 毒 dú poison / to poison / poisonous / malicious / cruel / fierce / narcotics syn 暴 bào sudden / violent / cruel / to show or expose / to injure syn 残 殘 cán to destroy / to spoil / to ruin / to injure / cruel / oppressive / savage / brutal / incomplete / disabled / to remain / to survive / remnant / surplus syn 惨 慘 cǎn miserable / wretched / cruel / inhuman / disastrous / tragic / dim / gloomy syn 荼 tú thistle / common sowthistle (Sonchus oleraceus) / bitter (taste) / cruel / flowering grass in profusion 桀 jié (emperor of Xia dynasty) / cruel 趮 zào easily provoked, hasty / fierce, cruel 豺狼虎豹 chái láng hǔ bào jackals, wolves, tigers and panthers (idiom) / animals who are dangerous to man and cattle / fierce and cruel people syn 虣 bào cruel / violent 凶戾 兇戾 xiōng lì cruel / tyrannical 反酷刑折磨公约 反酷刑折磨公約 fǎn kù xíng zhé mó gōng yuē UN convention against torture and cruel treatment (ratified by PRC in 1988) 商纣王 商紂王 shāng zhòu wáng King Zhou of Shang (11th century BC), notorious as a cruel tyrant 心毒 xīn dú cruel / vicious 惨毒 慘毒 cǎn dú cruel / vicious syn 桀王 jié wáng King Jie, the final ruler of the Xia dynasty (until c. 1600 BC), a notoriously cruel and immoral tyrant 残酷无情 殘酷無情 cán kù wú qíng cruel and unfeeling (idiom) syn 酷刑折磨 kù xíng zhé mó torture and cruel treatment 虎毒不食子 hǔ dú bù shí zǐ a tiger, though cruel, will not devour its cubs (idiom) / even wild beasts look after their young 伭 xián (literary) cruel / ruthless / (literary) dark red / black 惨酷 慘酷 cǎn kù (literary) cruel / savage / merciless 血淋淋 xiě lín lín bloody / blood-soaked / gory / grisly / cruel / brutal / harsh / grim / bitter syn 暴戾恣睢 bào lì - zì suī (idiom) cruel / ruthless / tyrannical syn 豺狼虎豹 chái - láng - hǔ - bào lit. jackals, wolves, tigers and panthers (idiom) / fig. nasty, cruel people syn 阎王 閻王 yán wang (Buddhism) Yama, the King of Hell / (fig.) cruel and tyrannical person syn 接受 jiē shòu to accept (a suggestion, punishment, bribe etc) / to acquiesce syn 受到 shòu dào to receive (praise, an education, punishment etc) / to be ...ed (praised, educated, punished etc) syn 惩罚 懲罰 chéng fá penalty / punishment / to punish syn 加重 jiā zhòng to make heavier / to emphasize / (of an illness etc) to become more serious / to aggravate (a bad situation) / to increase (a burden, punishment etc) syn 死刑 sǐ xíng death penalty / capital punishment syn 减免 減免 jiǎn miǎn to reduce or waive (taxes, punishment, rent, tuition etc) 制裁 zhì cái to punish / punishment / sanctions (incl. economic) syn 免受 miǎn shòu to avoid suffering / to prevent (sth bad) / to protect against (damage) / immunity (from prosecution) / freedom (from pain, damage etc) / exempt from punishment syn 刑罚 刑罰 xíng fá sentence / penalty / punishment syn 赎罪 贖罪 shú zuì to atone for one's crime / to buy freedom from punishment / redemption / atonement 殊死 shū sǐ to behead / capital punishment / desperate struggle / life-and-death syn 赦免 shè miǎn to pardon / to absolve / to exempt from punishment syn 凌迟 凌遲 líng chí the lingering death / the death of a thousand cuts (old form of capital punishment) syn 灭族 滅族 miè zú extermination of an entire family (ancient Chinese punishment) syn 袒护 袒護 tǎn hù to shield (a miscreant) from punishment, criticism etc / to take sb's side syn 赏罚 賞罰 shǎng fá reward and punishment syn 腰斩 腰斬 yāo zhǎn to chop sb in half at the waist (capital punishment) / to cut sth in half / to reduce sth by a dramatic margin / to terminate / to cut short 法律制裁 fǎ lǜ zhì cái legal sanction / prescribed punishment / punishable by law 刑具 xíng jù punishment equipment / torture instrument syn 畏罪 wèi zuì to dread punishment / afraid of being arrested for a crime syn 充军 充軍 chōng jūn to banish (to an army post, as a punishment) syn 甘之如饴 甘之如飴 gān zhī rú yí lit. as sweet as syrup (idiom, from Book of Songs) / to endure hardship gladly / a glutton for punishment syn 死有余辜 死有餘辜 sǐ yǒu yú gū (idiom) to be so evil that even death would be insufficient punishment syn 罪与罚 罪與罰 zuì yǔ fá Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky 陀思妥耶夫斯基[Tuo2 si1 tuo3 ye1 fu1 si1 ji1] 科 kē branch of study / administrative section / division / field / branch / stage directions / family (taxonomy) / rules / laws / to mete out (punishment) / to levy (taxes etc) / to fine sb / CL:個|个[ge4] 负荆请罪 負荊請罪 fù jīng qǐng zuì lit. to bring a bramble and ask for punishment (idiom) / fig. to offer sb a humble apology syn 宫刑 宮刑 gōng xíng castration (archaic punishment) 刑名 xíng míng xing-ming, a school of thought of the Warring States period associated with Shen Buhai 申不害[Shen1 Bu4hai4] / the designation for a punishment syn 电刑 電刑 diàn xíng to torture sb using electricity / electrocution (capital punishment) 五刑 wǔ xíng imperial five punishments of feudal China, up to Han times: tattooing characters on the forehead 墨[mo4], cutting off the nose 劓[yi4], amputation of one or both feet 刖[yue4], castration 宮|宫[gong1], execution 大辟[da4 pi4] / Han dynasty onwards: whipping 笞[chi1], beating the legs and buttocks with rough thorns 杖[zhang4], forced labor 徒[tu2], exile or banishment 流[liu2], capital punishment 死[si3] 车裂 車裂 chē liè to tear off sb's four limbs and head using five horse-drawn carts (historical form of capital punishment) syn 楚 chǔ distinct / clear / orderly / pain / suffering / deciduous bush used in Chinese medicine (genus Vitex) / punishment cane (old) 斩 斬 zhǎn to behead (as form of capital punishment) / to chop syn 烹 pēng to boil / to brew (tea) / to cook by briefly stir-frying and then mixing in sauce / (old) to boil to death (judicial punishment in ancient times) syn 剐 剮 guǎ cut off the flesh as punishment syn 刖 yuè to amputate one or both feet (punishment in imperial China) (one of the five mutilating punishments 五刑[wu3 xing2]) 磔 zhé old term for the right-falling stroke in Chinese characters (e.g. the last stroke of 大[da4]), now called 捺[na4] / sound made by birds (onom.) / (literary) to dismember (form of punishment) / to spread syn 轘 huàn to tear between chariots (as punishment) 咎有应得 咎有應得 jiù yǒu yīng dé (idiom) (literary) to deserve what one gets (punishment, mishap etc) 罪有应得 罪有應得 zuì yǒu yīng dé guilty and deserves to be punished (idiom) / entirely appropriate chastisement / the punishment fits the crime 