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狱
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Definitions
- 1. prison
Words Containing 狱
to be released from prison
prison
prison
imperial prison
hell on earth (idiom); suffering the torments of Buddhist hell while still alive
a hard legal case to judge
prison guard
imprisonment
to escape (from prison)
see 阿鼻地獄|阿鼻地狱[ā bí dì yù]
to release from jail
warden
escaped prisoner
purgatory
hell
to go to jail
to break into jail
floating hell
jail
to break out of prison
lit. to get shackled and thrown in jail (idiom)
to pass judgment on a legal case
see 畫地為牢|画地为牢[huà dì wéi láo]
Qincheng Prison, maximum-security prison located about 30 km north of central Beijing, whose inmates include former high-level officials convicted of corruption
literary inquisition
unjust charge or verdict; miscarriage of justice; frame-up
to imprison
(Buddhism) the Avici Hell, the last and most painful of the eight hot hells
to go to prison