五刑

ごけい

noun

five punishments (of ancient China: tattooing, cutting off the nose, cutting off a leg, castration or confinement, death)(archaism)

five punishments (of the ritsuryo system: light caning, severe caning, imprisonment, exile, death)

五	five
刑	punish, penalty, sentence, punishment

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