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    囚人

    囚しゅう人じん

    prisoner

    KMT8News #20+1NounPolitics & LawKanji Vocab7 strokes

    しゅうじんめしゅうどめしうど

    Noun

    1.
    prisoner, convict

    Stroke 0 / 7

    Speed1.0x

    囚しゅう人じんが刑けい務む所しょから逃にげた。

    The prisoner escaped from prison.

    KMT7Politics & Law
    その囚しゅう人じんは長なが年ねんの刑けいに服ふくしている。

    That prisoner is serving a long sentence.

    KMT8Politics & Law
    政せい治じ犯はんとして捕とらえられた囚しゅう人じんは、多おおくの国くにで問もん題だいとなっている。

    Prisoners arrested as political criminals are a problem in many countries.

    KMT8Politics & Law
    囚しゅう人じん番ばん号ごうで管かん理りされる彼かれらは、自じ由ゆうを奪うばわれた存そん在ざいだ。

    Managed by prisoner numbers, they are beings deprived of freedom.

    KMT8Politics & LawEmotions & Psychology
    囚しゅう人じんたちの人じん権けんは国こく際さい法ほうによって保ほ護ごされているべきだ。

    The human rights of prisoners should be protected by international law.

    KMT9Politics & LawPolitics & Law

    Kanji that make up this word

    囚
    とら.われる…(1)
    captured・criminal・arrest・catch
    人
    ひと・-り・-と…(7)
    person
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