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Mythic Mandarin

刑罚 (xíng fá): meaning and stroke order

刑罚 (xíng fá) means sentence, penalty, punishment.

刑罚

Simplified
刑罚
Traditional
刑罰
Pinyin
xíng fá

Stroke order of 刑罚

刑

  • Xíng surname Xing
  • xíng punishment; penalty
  • 6 strokes

Stroke by stroke

罚

  • fá to punish; to penalize; to fine
  • fá variant of 罰|罚[fa2]
  • 9 strokes
  • Traditional form: 罰

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 刑罚

  1. xíng fá Traditional 刑罰
    • sentence
    • penalty
    • punishment

Radicals of the characters

刑
Radical 刀 (Kangxi radical 18) · 6 strokes · 开 on the left, 刂 on the right
罚
Radical 网 (Kangxi radical 122) · 9 strokes

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.

刑罚 in our stories

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  • 宋慈把这个案子写进书里，不是为了讲一个精彩的故事，而是想告诉后来的官员：破案靠的并非口供和刑罚，而是仔细的观察和证据。

    Sòng Cí bǎ zhè gè ànzi xiě jìn shū lǐ bú shì wèile jiǎng yí gè jīngcǎi de gùshi érshì xiǎng gàosu hòulái de guānyuán pò'àn kào de bìngfēi kǒugòng hé xíngfá érshì zǐxì de guānchá hé zhèngjù

    Song Ci put this case in his book not to tell an exciting story but to teach later officials that solving a case depends not on confessions and punishment but on careful observation and evidence.

    From the story The flies that solved the case HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 刑罚

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).