獄 — Chinese character
獄
yù
prison, jail; case; lawsuit
- Pinyin
- yù
- Radical
- 94 ⽝ (Dog)
- Strokes
- 14
- Components
- 犭 言 犬
- Formation
- ideographic — A guard dog 犭 talking 言 to a prisoner 犬
- Simplified
- 狱
- Japanese
- 獄 as a kanji
獄 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Analects 1 · I Ching 1 · Mencius 2
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