狱

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prison

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Ideographic compound (会意字)

A guard dog 犭 talking 讠 to a prisoner 犬

Components 犭讠犬

prison · Heisig RSH #350

chihuahua + pack of wild dogs + words

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

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Word	Pinyin	Meaning
人间地狱	rén jiān dì yù	hell on earth (idiom); suffering the torments of Buddhist hell while still alive; fig. hav…
无间地狱	Wú jiàn Dì yù	see 阿鼻地獄\|阿鼻地狱[A1 bi2 Di4 yu4]
地狱笑话	dì yù xiào huà	(coll.) transgressive humor that treats tragedy, suffering, or other morally sensitive top…
浮动地狱	fú dòng dì yù	floating hell; slave ships
画地为狱	huà dì wéi yù	see 畫地為牢\|画地为牢[hua4 di4 wei2 lao2]
文字狱	wén zì yù	literary inquisition; official persecution of intellectuals for their writing
阿鼻地狱	Ā bí Dì yù	(Buddhism) the Avici Hell, the last and most painful of the eight hot hells
释放出狱	shì fàng chū yù	to release from jail
大狱	dà yù	jail; prison
地狱	dì yù	hell; underworld; (Buddhism) Naraka; (coll.) (of humor, jokes, content etc) extremely dark…
监狱长	jiān yù zhǎng	prison warden
典狱长	diǎn yù zhǎng	prison warden
下狱	xià yù	to imprison
出狱	chū yù	to be released from prison
入狱	rù yù	to go to jail; to be sent to prison
秦城监狱	Qín chéng Jiān yù	Qincheng Prison, maximum-security prison located about 30 km north of central Beijing, who…
断狱	duàn yù	to pass judgment on a legal case
越狱犯	yuè yù fàn	escaped prisoner
牢狱之灾	láo yù zhī zāi	imprisonment
狱警	yù jǐng	prison officer