粵

文man4字zi6獄juk6

simp文字狱
man4 zi6 juk6wén zì yù

English

  1. literary inquisition
  2. official persecution of intellectuals for their writing
  3. literary inquisition

粵語 — Cantonese

  1. 純因一個人寫咗啲當權者唔啱睇嘅文章字句,就判一個人坐監

Examples

  • 依家咩世紀呀,仲玩文字獄?上網寫句嘢唔啱聽就拉人,依家返咗古代?

    What century are we in, they think they can do literary inquisition? He was arrested just for writing a comment online, had we all gone back to ancient time ?

Sources: cc-cedict, rime-cantonese, words.hk

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