Chinese symbol for “imprisonment”
牢狱之灾
láo yù zhī zāi
Traditional: 牢獄之災
imprisonment
The closest CC-CEDICT match for imprisonment is 牢狱之灾 (láo yù zhī zāi), defined as: imprisonment.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “imprisonment”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 牢狱之灾.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 坐牢 | zuò láo | to be imprisoned |
| 牢固 | láo gù | firm; secure |
| 牢房 | láo fáng | jail cell; prison cell |
| 牢记 (牢記) | láo jì | to keep in mind; to remember |
| 牢牢 | láo láo | firmly; safely |
| 牢狱 (牢獄) | láo yù | prison |
| 监狱 (監獄) | jiān yù | prison |
| 地狱 (地獄) | dì yù | hell; underworld; (Buddhism) Naraka; (coll.) (of humor, jokes, content etc) extremely dark or morally transgressive |
| 之后 (之後) | zhī hòu | after; behind; (at the beginning of a sentence) afterwards; since then |
| 灾难 (災難) | zāi nàn | disaster; catastrophe |
See also: Japanese symbol for “imprisonment”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.