(yù) - prison, jail (bound) in Mandarin
yùTraditional: 狱
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Translation
prison, jail (bound)
Word origin
An ideographic character with two dog forms (犭 and 犬) flanking 言 (yán, speech). The image of two dogs snarling over words suggested a legal dispute, and so a prison.
- Origin
- ideographic
- Root
- 犭/犬 (two dogs) + 言 (yán, speech)
Stroke order
狱
Examples
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He was sent to prison.
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This is hellish work.
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It is cold in prison.
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After leaving prison he started afresh.
狱 (yù) means prison, the second half of 监狱 (jiānyù) and 地狱 (dìyù, hell).
Appears in 2 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 狱.
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