狱

yù

Definitions

1. prison

Words Containing 狱

• 地狱 dì yù: hell
• 监狱 jiān yù: prison
• 下狱 xià yù: to imprison
• 人间地狱 rén jiān dì yù: hell on earth (idiom); suffering the torments of Buddhist hell while still alive
• 入狱 rù yù: to go to jail
• 典狱长 diǎn yù zhǎng: warden
• 冤狱 yuān yù: unjust charge or verdict; miscarriage of justice; frame-up
• 出狱 chū yù: to be released from prison
• 劫狱 jié yù: to break into jail
• 大狱 dà yù: jail
• 文字狱 wén zì yù: literary inquisition
• 断狱 duàn yù: to pass judgment on a legal case
• 浮动地狱 fú dòng dì yù: floating hell
• 无间地狱 wú jiàn dì yù: see 阿鼻地獄|阿鼻地狱[ā bí dì yù]
• 炼狱 liàn yù: purgatory
• 牢狱 láo yù: prison
• 牢狱之灾 láo yù zhī zāi: imprisonment
• 狱吏 yù lì: prison guard
• 画地为狱 huà dì wéi yù: see 畫地為牢|画地为牢[huà dì wéi láo]
• 疑狱 yí yù: a hard legal case to judge
• 秦城监狱 qín chéng jiān yù: Qincheng Prison, maximum-security prison located about 30 km north of central Beijing, whose inmates include former high-level officials convicted of corruption
• 诏狱 zhào yù: imperial prison
• 越狱 yuè yù: to break out of prison
• 越狱犯 yuè yù fàn: escaped prisoner
• 身陷牢狱 shēn xiàn láo yù: to go to prison
• 逃狱 táo yù: to escape (from prison)
• 释放出狱 shì fàng chū yù: to release from jail
• 锒铛入狱 láng dāng rù yù: lit. to get shackled and thrown in jail (idiom)
• 阿鼻地狱 ā bí dì yù: (Buddhism) the Avici Hell, the last and most painful of the eight hot hells