| 狱 | [ yù ] prison |
| 狱卒 | [ yù zú ] jailer (old) |
| 狱吏 | [ yù lì ] prison guard, jailer (old) |
| ⇒ 下狱 | [ xià yù ] to imprison |
| ⇒ 人间地狱 | [ rén jiān dì yù ] hell on earth (idiom); suffering the torments of Buddhist hell while still alive, fig. having an uncomfortable time |
| ⇒ 入狱 | [ rù yù ] to go to jail, to be sent to prison |
| ⇒ 典狱长 | [ diǎn yù zhǎng ] warden |
| ⇒ 冤狱 | [ yuān yù ] unjust charge or verdict, miscarriage of justice, frame-up |
| ⇒ 出狱 | [ chū yù ] to be released from prison |
| ⇒ 劫狱 | [ jié yù ] to break into jail, to forcibly release prisoners |
| ⇒ 地狱 | [ dì yù ] hell, infernal, underworld, (Buddhism) Naraka |
| ⇒ 大狱 | [ dà yù ] jail, prison |
| ⇒ 文字狱 | [ wén zì yù ] literary inquisition, official persecution of intellectuals for their writing |
| ⇒ 断狱 | [ duàn yù ] to pass judgment on a legal case |
| ⇒ 浮动地狱 | [ fú dòng dì yù ] floating hell, slave ships |
| ⇒ 无间地狱 | [ wú jiàn dì yù ] see 阿鼻地獄|阿鼻地狱[A1 bi2 Di4 yu4] |
| ⇒ 炼狱 | [ liàn yù ] purgatory |
| ⇒ 牢狱 | [ laó yù ] prison |
| ⇒ 牢狱之灾 | [ laó yù zhī zaī ] imprisonment |
| ⇒ 画地为狱 | [ huà dì weí yù ] see 畫地為牢|画地为牢[hua4 di4 wei2 lao2] |
| ⇒ 疑狱 | [ yí yù ] a hard legal case to judge |
| ⇒ 监狱 | [ jiān yù ] prison |
| ⇒ 秦城监狱 | [ qín chéng jiān yù ] Qincheng Prison, maximum-security prison located about 30 km north of central Beijing, whose inmates include former high-level officials convicted of corruption |
| ⇒ 诏狱 | [ zhaò yù ] imperial prison |
| ⇒ 越狱 | [ yuè yù ] to break out of prison, to jailbreak (an iOS device etc) |
| ⇒ 越狱犯 | [ yuè yù fàn ] escaped prisoner |
| ⇒ 身陷牢狱 | [ shēn xiàn laó yù ] to go to prison, to be imprisoned |
| ⇒ 逃狱 | [ taó yù ] to escape (from prison), to jump bail |
| ⇒ 释放出狱 | [ shì fàng chū yù ] to release from jail |
| ⇒ 锒铛入狱 | [ láng dāng rù yù ] lit. to get shackled and thrown in jail (idiom), fig. to be put behind bars, to get jailed |
| ⇒ 阿鼻地狱 | [ ā bí dì yù ] (Buddhism) the Avici Hell, the last and most painful of the eight hot hells |
