Meanings
Punish, Penalty, Sentence, Punishment
Radicals
Decomposition
โฟฐๅผๅ
Etymology
Ideographic: A manย ๅ in jailย ๅผ
Writing Practice
Stroke Order
No common kun'yomi readings
Words Using This Kanji
139 words totalcorporal punishment
divine punishment
Hansen's disease
exile
penal colony
tattooing (as a form of punishment in ancient China)
model
criminal liability
prison sentence (without a stay of execution)
judge's sentence
prisoner
penal servitude
execute by shooting to death (by firing squad)
scaffold
freedom-restricting punishment
indeterminate sentence
second most severe of the five punishments of ancient China (castration for men, confinement for women)
definite term (of a prison sentence)
place of execution
burning at the stake