けい
Meanings
Noun
Suffix
1. penalty; sentence; punishment
Pitch accent
Used in vocabulary (66 in total)
prison; penitentiary
five punishments (of ancient China: tattooing, cutting off the nose, cutting off a leg, castration or confinement, death); five punishments (of the ritsuryo system: light caning, severe caning, imprisonment, exile, death)
(police) detective; criminal matter
cops and robbers (hide-and-seek game)
exile; banishment; deportation
criminal law books
judge's sentence; assessment of a case
crucifixion
criminal law; penal code
punishment
freedom-restricting punishment; imprisonment
jail; prison; punishment
death penalty; capital punishment
(criminal) punishment; penalty; sentence
Ministry of Justice (in Tang-dynasty China)
place of execution
prison term
burning at the stake; execution by burning
punishment without a legal trial; vigilantism
reduction of penalty; commutation of a sentence
death by hanging; execution by hanging
to sentence; to assign a penalty
life imprisonment; life sentence
penal servitude
(penalty of) imprisonment
execution; death by execution
decapitation
divine punishment
jail sentence; imprisonment
financial penalty; fine
execution of a sentence (esp. imprisonment)
cops and robbers (hide-and-seek game)
instruments of punishment
life imprisonment
criminal offense; criminal offence
severe punishment
second most severe of the five punishments of ancient China (castration for men, confinement for women)
maximum punishment; maximum sentence
heavy sentence
corporal punishment; punishment by mutilation
criminal jurisprudence
corporal punishment; physical punishment; prison sentence; penal servitude; imprisonment with hard labour
indeterminate sentence
nulla poena sine lege; no punishment without law
definite term (of a prison sentence)
death by hanging
supplementary punishment
penalty designations
corporal punishment; physical punishment
having served time in prison; ex-convict; (arch.) eunuch
execute by shooting to death (by firing squad)
statutory penalty
death penalty
theory of retribution; retributivism; retributive justice
stripping of honours (as a means of punishment); stripping of rights; public humiliation
financial penalty; pecuniary punishment
condemned person; prisoner
criminal law
principal penalty
model; pattern; copy
stoning (punishment)
discretionary sentence; discretionary penalty
imposing a punishment
retributivism; retributive justice; principle of punitive justice; belief that crimes deserve suitable punishment
tattooing (form of punishment in ancient China)
Examples (1 in total)
The accused was condemned to ten years in prison.