Kanji
N1 6 strokes Grade 8 freq #864

punish, penalty, sentence, punishment

On'yomi (音読み)

Radical (部首)

sword katana

Others with this radical

On'yomi compounds (音読み)

(police) detective
death penalty; capital punishment
penalty; sentence
recommended sentence; prosecution's demand for punishment
prison; jail
criminal law; penal code
prison sentence (without a stay of execution)
execution
criminal liability
criminal condemned to death; convict on death row

Example sentences

He is a detective.

The man aimed a gun at the detectives.

We must abolish the death penalty.

The death penalty had been done away with in many states in the USA.