| 刑事 | xíng shì | criminal; penal |
| 刑 | xíng | punishment; penalty; sentence; torture; corporal punishment; surname Xing |
| 刑法 | xíng fǎ | criminal law |
| 刑罚 | xíng fá | sentence; penalty; punishment |
| 死刑 | sǐ xíng | death penalty |
| 徒刑 | tú xíng | prison sentence |
| 有期徒刑 | yǒu qī tú xíng | limited term of imprisonment (i.e. anything less than life imprisonment) |
| 缓刑 | huǎn xíng | stay of execution; suspended prison sentence; reprieve |
| 量刑 | liàng xíng | to assess punishment; to determine the sentence (on a criminal) |
| 刑部 | Xíng Bù | Ministry of Justice in Imperial China |
| 刑讯 | xíng xùn | interrogation under torture; inquisition |
| 严刑 | yán xíng | strict law; cruel punishment; to carry out cruel law rigorously |
| 刑律 | xíng lǜ | criminal law |
| 酷刑 | kù xíng | cruelty; torture |
| 刑期 | xíng qī | prison term |
| 刑名 | xíng míng | criminal law (abbr. for pre-Han legalist school 刑名之学); name of crime |
| 肉刑 | ròu xíng | corporal punishment (such as castration or amputation) |
| 行刑 | xíng xíng | to carry out a sentence; to execute |
| 减刑 | jiǎn xíng | reduce penalty; shortened or commuted (judicial) sentence |
| 无期徒刑 | wú qī tú xíng | life imprisonment |
| 刑具 | xíng jù | punishment equipment; torture instrument |
| 临刑 | lín xíng | facing execution |
| 五刑 | wǔ xíng | imperial five punishments of feudal China, up to Han times: tattooing characters on the forehead 墨, cutting off the nose 劓, amputation of one or both feet 刖, castration 宫, execution 大辟; Han dynasty onwards: whipping 笞, beating the legs and buttocks with rough thorns 杖, forced labor 徒, exile or banishment 流, capital punishment 死 |
| 绞刑 | jiǎo xíng | to execute by hanging |
| 刑场 | xíng chǎng | execution ground; gallows; scaffold |
| 刑事审判庭 | xíng shì shěn pàn tíng | criminal court |
| 刑事局 | xíng shì jú | Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB) |
| 刑事拘留 | xíng shì jū liú | to detain as criminal |
| 刑事法庭 | xíng shì fǎ tíng | criminal court |
| 刑事法院 | xíng shì fǎ yuàn | criminal court; judiciary court |
| 刑事犯 | xíng shì fàn | a criminal |
| 刑事诉讼法 | xíng shì sù sòng fǎ | criminal procedure |
| 刑事警察局 | xíng shì jǐng chá jú | criminal investigation bureau |
| 刑人 | xíng rén | criminal to be executed; to execute a criminal |
| 刑名之学 | xíng míng zhī xué | criminal law, pre-Han legalist school |
| 刑堂 | xíng táng | torture chamber |
| 刑天 | Xíng tiān | Xingtian, headless giant hero of Chinese mythology decapitated by the Yellow Emperor 黄帝 |
| 刑庭 | xíng tíng | criminal court; abbr. for 刑事法庭 |
| 刑戮 | xíng lù | executed; to suffer corporal punishment or execution |
| 刑房 | xíng fáng | office of punishment; torture chamber (esp. unofficial) |
| 刑案 | xíng àn | criminal case |
| 刑求 | xíng qiú | to extort confession by torture |
| 刑满 | xíng mǎn | to complete a prison sentence |
| 刑网 | xíng wǎng | legal net; the long arm of the law |
| 刑舂 | xíng chōng | to be forced to grind grain as a punishment (old) |
| 刑诉法 | xíng sù fǎ | criminal procedure; abbr. for 刑事诉讼法 |
| 刑警 | xíng jǐng | police |
| 刑辱 | xíng rǔ | to humiliate and torture; to suffer mutilation and humiliation |
| 判刑 | pàn xíng | sentence (to prison etc) |
| 十字架刑 | shí zì jià xíng | crucifiction |