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hạ ngục

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to imprison
Verb
to imprison
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to imprison Core ActionsTheme

To imprison means to put someone in jail or keep them in a place as a prisoner.

vi Tên tội phạm đã bị hạ ngục sau phiên tòa.

en The criminal was imprisoned after the trial.

Parts
hạ / ngục / 下獄
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Components

Components

hạ ngục
Chinese characters Estimated from syllable mapping
Representative candidate
下獄
Candidates by syllable
hạ 下 ngục 獄
Bold marks a representative candidate assembled from per-syllable character mappings. Parentheses show other candidates for the same syllable. It is not necessarily a source-aligned spelling for the whole word.
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giam cầm / bỏ tù / cầm tù / tống giam …
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Easily confused

Same meaning
Ends with this word

địa ngục/hỏa ngục/tù ngục/vượt ngục

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imprison vi: hạ ngục / ja: 投獄 / WordNet aligned
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hạ cánh / thiên hạ / hạ long / mùa hạ …
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hạ (lower) — words using
ngục (prison) — words using
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