Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- yù
English
- prison, jail
- prison
- case
- lawsuit
- prison; jail
粵語
- 專門用嚟監禁罪犯，剝奪佢哋自由嘅建築物，有好多唔同嘅設施同規則避免罪犯逃走
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Variants
Words containing 獄
- 監獄gaam1 juk6
prison
- 地獄dei6 juk6
hell; underworld; (Buddhism) Naraka
- 入獄jap6 juk6
to go to jail
- 出獄ceot1 juk6
to be released from prison
- 越獄jyut6 juk6
to break out of prison
- 煉獄lin6 juk6
purgatory
- 牢獄lou4 juk6
prison
- 獄警juk6 ging2
prison officer
- 冤獄jyun1 juk6
unjust charge or verdict; miscarriage of justice; frame-up
- 逃獄tou4 juk6
to escape (from prison)
- 文字獄man4 zi6 juk6
literary inquisition
- 獄卒juk6 zeot1
jailer (old)
- 疑獄ji4 juk6
a hard legal case to judge
- 破地獄po3 dei6 juk6
(in popular religion) a ritual in a funeral or Yu Lan Ghost Festival, which implies opening of the gate to hell and guiding the spirits ----
- 獄吏juk6 lei6
prison guard
- 越獄犯jyut6 juk6 faan2
escaped prisoner
- 下獄haa6 juk6
to imprison
- 大獄daai6 juk6
jail
- 縣獄jyun6 juk6
- 斷獄dyun6 juk6
to pass judgment on a legal case
- 人間地獄jan4 gaan1 dei6 juk6
hell on earth (idiom); suffering the torments of Buddhist hell while still alive
- 監獄長gaam1 juk6 coeng4
prison warden
- 押獄aat3 juk6
- 劫獄gip3 juk6
to break into jail