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prison
hell / underworld / (Buddhism) Naraka / (coll.) (of humor, jokes, content etc) extremely dark or morally transgressive
prison officer
to be released from prison
to break out of prison / to jailbreak (an iOS device etc)
to go to jail / to be sent to prison
prison
jailer (old)
purgatory
hell on earth (idiom) / suffering the torments of Buddhist hell while still alive / fig. having an uncomfortable time
lit. to get shackled and thrown in jail (idiom) / fig. to be put behind bars / to get jailed
prison guard / jailer (old)
to imprison
prison warden
unjust charge or verdict / miscarriage of justice / frame-up
to break into jail / to forcibly release prisoners
(coll.) transgressive humor that treats tragedy, suffering, or other morally sensitive topics as jokes (implying that laughing would send one to hell)
jail / prison
literary inquisition / official persecution of intellectuals for their writing
to pass judgment on a legal case
floating hell / slave ships
imprisonment
see 畫地為牢|画地为牢[]
a hard legal case to judge
prison warden
imperial prison (for prisoners detained by order of the emperor)
escaped prisoner
to go to prison / to be imprisoned
to escape (from prison) / to jump bail
to release from jail
see 阿鼻地獄|阿鼻地狱[]
Qincheng Prison, maximum-security prison located about 30 km north of central Beijing, whose inmates include former high-level officials convicted of corruption
(Buddhism) the Avici Hell, the last and most painful of the eight hot hells
Definitions from CC-CEDICT · 125,326 source records · Release 2026-10-27