The Chinese Radical: 刑


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Meaning
punishment, penalty    刑

Explanation

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JLPT HSK 5
form, model, type (e.g. blood type)
xíng
Top: punishment (who openly [=gate at temple] uses his knife is punished.), earth:
Use an open knife and earth (=clay) to form a model.
JLPT HSK 6
punishment, penalty, sentence
xíng
Left: open, start (image of the entrance gate of a buddh. temple), right: knife
Who openly uses his knife, will be: punished.
JLPT no HSK
thistles and thorns
jīng
Above: plant , bottom: punishment (Who openly uses his knife is punished.)
The plant, that can punish, are the thorns of the thistle.

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