(zuì xíng) - crime, criminal act in Mandarin
zuìxíngTraditional: 罪行
Translation
crime, criminal act
Word origin
From 罪 (zuì, crime, guilt) and 行 (xíng, an act, conduct); together, literally a criminal act.
- Origin
- compound
- Root
- 罪 (zuì, crime) + 行 (xíng, act, conduct)
Stroke order
罪
行
Examples
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The police are investigating this crime.
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He admitted to his crime.
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The court examined his crime in detail.
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This kind of crime will be severely punished.
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The newspaper reported the details of this crime.
罪行 (zuìxíng) is a crime or criminal act, from 罪 (zuì, crime, guilt) and 行 (xíng, an act, conduct). It names the act itself rather than the person who did it.
For the person, Chinese uses 罪犯 (zuìfàn), a criminal, or the verb 犯罪 (fànzuì), to commit a crime. So a news report will typically say someone 犯罪 (fànzuì) and then describe their 罪行 (zuìxíng), keeping the act and the actor grammatically separate in a way English does not always bother to.
It carries more formal weight than the everyday word for wrongdoing: 罪行 (zuìxíng) belongs in courtrooms, news reports and legal documents, not in a casual complaint about a friend's bad behaviour.
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