刑
punishment; penalty; sentence; torture; corporal punishment
6 strokes
Dict coverage rank #894 U+5211
How 刑 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
A man 刂 in jail 开
How to remember it
punishment · Heisig RSH #618
two hands + saber
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Characters built with 刑 as their sound component
These characters all use 刑 (xíng) as their phonetic component — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 刑 sound component | xíng | punishment, penalty; law |
| 型 | xíng | pattern, model, type; mold; law |
| 硎 | xíng | whetstone |
Words containing 刑
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 刑名之学 | xíng míng zhī xué | xing-ming, a school of thought of the Warring States period associated with Shen Buhai 申不害… |
| 刑事法院 | xíng shì fǎ yuàn | criminal court; judiciary court |
| 受刑人 | shòu xíng rén | person being executed; victim of corporal punishment; person serving a sentence |
| 刑人 | xíng rén | criminal to be executed; to execute a criminal |
| 水刑 | shuǐ xíng | water-boarding (torture) |
| 刑天 | Xíng tiān | Xingtian, headless giant hero of Chinese mythology decapitated by the Yellow Emperor 黃帝|黄帝… |
| 行刑 | xíng xíng | to carry out a (death) sentence; execution |
| 上刑 | shàng xíng | severe punishment; worst punishment; to torture |
| 电刑 | diàn xíng | to torture sb using electricity; electrocution (capital punishment) |
| 刑事局 | Xíng shì jú | Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB) |
| 体刑 | tǐ xíng | corporal punishment |
| 刑法 | xíng fǎ | criminal law |
| 刑事 | xíng shì | criminal; penal |
| 石刑 | shí xíng | stoning (execution method) |
| 定刑 | dìng xíng | to sentence (a criminal) |
| 火刑 | huǒ xíng | execution by fire; burning at the stake |
| 流刑 | liú xíng | exile (as a form of punishment) |
| 国际刑事警察组织 | Guó jì Xíng shì Jǐng chá Zǔ zhī | International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) |
| 刑名 | xíng míng | xing-ming, a school of thought of the Warring States period associated with Shen Buhai 申不害… |
| 行刑队 | xíng xíng duì | firing squad |