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刑
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- 刑
- xíng · punishment, penalty; law
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Mandarin tones
2 · xing2
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
jing4
Cantonese word readings for 刑. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.
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- penalty; sentence; punishment
- corporal punishment; torture
- (literary) to slaughter; to massacre
- (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) model; example
- (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to set an example; to follow an example
- a surname, Xing
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