狱獄 in English

How it used to be written

These are the forms of 獄, the traditional character: 狱 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

• Bronze script 西周晚期
• Clerical script 曹魏
• See all 9 forms

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

Examples

• 他人即地狱。

  Others are hell.

• 你是为什么入狱的？

  What were you in prison for?

• 十名囚犯逃狱了。

  Ten prisoners broke out of jail.

• 欢迎来到地狱。

  Welcome to hell!

• 监狱生活比做畜牲还不如。

  Life in prison is worse than the life of an animal.

All example sentences with 狱