刑 (xíng): meaning and stroke order
刑 (xíng) means punishment, penalty, sentence, torture, corporal punishment, surname Xing.
刑
- Simplified
- 刑
- Traditional
- 刑 (same form)
- Pinyin
- xíng
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Stroke order of 刑
刑
- Xíng surname Xing
- xíng punishment; penalty
- 6 strokes
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Meaning of 刑
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xíng
- punishment
- penalty
- sentence
- torture
- corporal punishment
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Xíng
- surname Xing
Radical and structure
- 刑
- Radical 刀 (Kangxi radical 18) · 6 strokes · 开 on the left, 刂 on the right
Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.
Words with 刑
- 刑警 xíng jǐng criminal police (abbr. for 刑事警察[xing2 shi4 jing3 cha2])
- 行刑 xíng xíng to carry out a (death) sentence; execution
- 严刑 yán xíng strict law; cruel punishment
- 刑罚 xíng fá sentence; penalty
Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).