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- corporal punishment consisting of carving and inking characters on the victim's forehead
- 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]
- xing-ming, a school of thought of the Warring States period associated with Shen Buhai 申不害[Shen1 Bu4 hai4]
- the designation for a punishment
- Xingtian, headless giant hero of Chinese mythology decapitated by the Yellow Emperor 黃帝|黄帝[Huang2 di4]
- to detain as criminal
- criminal detention
- abbr. for 刑事拘留[xing2 shi4 ju1 liu2]
Trad. 電刑
- to torture sb using electricity
- electrocution (capital punishment)
- torture
- corporal punishment (traditionally involving mutilation or amputation)
- person being executed
- victim of corporal punishment
- person serving a sentence
- criminal police
- member of the criminal police
Trad. 刑名之學
- xing-ming, a school of thought of the Warring States period associated with Shen Buhai 申不害[Shen1 Bu4 hai4]
- water-boarding, interrogation technique used by CIA
- limited term of imprisonment (i.e. anything less than life imprisonment)
Trad. 刑事訴訟法
- criminal procedure
- Criminal Investigation Bureau
Trad. 歐洲刑警組織
- Europol (European Police Office)
Trad. 國際刑警組織
- Interpol (International Criminal Police Organization)
Trad. 死刑緩期執行
- deferred death sentence
- abbr. to 死緩|死缓[si3 huan3]
Trad. 反酷刑折磨公約
- UN convention against torture and cruel treatment (ratified by PRC in 1988)
Trad. 國際刑事警察組織
- International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol)