The judge sentenced him to one year's imprisonment.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
有期徒刑
limited term of imprisonment (i.e. anything less than life imprisonment)
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
limited term of imprisonment (i.e. anything less than life imprisonment)
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 有期徒刑 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 有期徒刑 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
In July 2004, Sami was sentenced to 24 years in jail.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 有期徒刑.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 有期徒刑.
Directly before
- 一年有期徒刑1
- 年有期徒刑1
Directly after
- No repeated neighbour in the corpus.
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 有期徒刑
What does 有期徒刑 mean in Chinese?
有期徒刑 (yǒuqītúxíng) means limited term of imprisonment (i.e. anything less than life imprisonment).
How do you pronounce 有期徒刑?
有期徒刑 is pronounced yǒuqītúxíng.
Is 有期徒刑 an HSK word?
有期徒刑 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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