死刑 meaning in English
death penalty; capital punishment
12 strokes
Meaning of 死刑
Definitions from CC-CEDICT.
sǐxíng
- death penalty; capital punishment
死刑 in example sentences
Real sentences from the Tatoeba project, with pinyin and English.
许多国家已经废除了死刑。
Many countries have abolished capital punishment.
我们应该废除死刑。
We should abolish the death penalty.
死刑在美国的很多州都被废除了。
The death penalty had been done away with in many states in the USA.
Stroke order for each character
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死 sǐ · to die · 6 strokes
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刑 xíng · punishment · 6 strokes
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Related words
Words that share a character with 死刑.
| 死亡 | sǐwáng | to die; death |
| 生死 | shēngsǐ | life or death |
| 死心 | sǐxīn | to give up; to admit failure |
| 刑法 | xíngfǎ | criminal law |
| 死心塌地 | sǐxīn-tādì | to be hell-bent on; dead set on sth; unswerving |
| 该死 | gāisǐ | Damn it!; damned |
| 杀死 | shāsǐ | to kill |
| 死去 | sǐqù | to die |
| 打死 | dǎsǐ | to kill; to beat to death |
| 要死 | yàosǐ | extremely; awfully |
| 死者 | sǐzhě | the dead; the deceased |
| 害死 | hàisǐ | to kill; to cause death |
Questions about 死刑
What does 死刑 mean?
死刑 (sǐxíng) means "death penalty; capital punishment".
How do you write 死刑?
死刑 is made of 2 characters: 死 (6 strokes), 刑 (6 strokes). That is 12 strokes in total.