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    3. 処刑

    処刑

    処しょ刑けい

    execution

    KMT7News #15+1CoreNoun, Participle, Verb, TransitivePolitics & LawKanji Vocab11 strokes

    しょけい

    Noun, Participle, Verb, Transitive

    1.
    execution

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    彼かれは反はん逆ぎゃく罪ざいで処しょ刑けいされました。

    He was executed for treason.

    KMT6Politics & LawHistory
    中ちゅう世せいのヨーロッパでは、公こう開かい処しょ刑けいが一 般 的 でした。

    Public executions were common in medieval Europe.

    KMT7Politics & LawHistory
    多おおくの国くにで死し刑けい、つまり処しょ刑けいは廃はい止しされています。

    Capital punishment, or execution, has been abolished in many countries.

    KMT7Politics & Law
    歴れき史しドラマでは、権けん力りょく闘とう争そうの末すえに処しょ刑けいされる人じん物ぶつが描えがかれることがあります。

    In historical dramas, characters who are executed after power struggles are sometimes depicted.

    KMT7HistoryPolitics & Law
    処しょ刑けいの是ぜ非ひについては、世せか界い中じゅうで倫りん理り的てき、法ほう的てきな議ぎ論ろんが続つづいています。

    Ethical and legal debates about the pros and cons of execution continue worldwide.

    KMT8Politics & LawReligion & Philosophy

    Kanji that make up this word

    処
    ところ・-こ・お.る…(1)
    dispose・manage・deal with・sentence・condemn…(3)
    刑
    punish・penalty・sentence・punishment
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