| 獄 | [ yù ] prison |
| 獄卒 | [ yù zú ] jailer (old) |
| 獄吏 | [ yù lì ] prison guard, jailer (old) |
| ⇒ 下獄 | [ xià yù ] to imprison |
| ⇒ 人間地獄 | [ rén jiān dì yù ] hell on earth (idiom); suffering the torments of Buddhist hell while still alive, fig. having an uncomfortable time |
| ⇒ 入獄 | [ rù yù ] to go to jail, to be sent to prison |
| ⇒ 典獄長 | [ diǎn yù zhǎng ] warden |
| ⇒ 冤獄 | [ yuān yù ] unjust charge or verdict, miscarriage of justice, frame-up |
| ⇒ 出獄 | [ chū yù ] to be released from prison |
| ⇒ 劫獄 | [ jié yù ] to break into jail, to forcibly release prisoners |
| ⇒ 地獄 | [ dì yù ] hell, infernal, underworld, (Buddhism) Naraka |
| ⇒ 大獄 | [ dà yù ] jail, prison |
| ⇒ 文字獄 | [ wén zì yù ] literary inquisition, official persecution of intellectuals for their writing |
| ⇒ 斷獄 | [ duàn yù ] to pass judgment on a legal case |
| ⇒ 浮動地獄 | [ fú dòng dì yù ] floating hell, slave ships |
| ⇒ 無間地獄 | [ wú jiàn dì yù ] see 阿鼻地獄|阿鼻地狱[A1 bi2 Di4 yu4] |
| ⇒ 煉獄 | [ liàn yù ] purgatory |
| ⇒ 牢獄 | [ laó yù ] prison |
| ⇒ 牢獄之災 | [ laó yù zhī zaī ] imprisonment |
| ⇒ 畫地為獄 | [ huà dì weí yù ] see 畫地為牢|画地为牢[hua4 di4 wei2 lao2] |
| ⇒ 疑獄 | [ yí yù ] a hard legal case to judge |
| ⇒ 監獄 | [ jiān yù ] prison |
| ⇒ 秦城監獄 | [ 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 |
| ⇒ 詔獄 | [ zhaò yù ] imperial prison |
| ⇒ 越獄 | [ yuè yù ] to break out of prison, to jailbreak (an iOS device etc) |
| ⇒ 越獄犯 | [ yuè yù fàn ] escaped prisoner |
| ⇒ 身陷牢獄 | [ shēn xiàn laó yù ] to go to prison, to be imprisoned |
| ⇒ 逃獄 | [ taó yù ] to escape (from prison), to jump bail |
| ⇒ 釋放出獄 | [ shì fàng chū yù ] to release from jail |
| ⇒ 鋃鐺入獄 | [ láng dāng rù yù ] lit. to get shackled and thrown in jail (idiom), fig. to be put behind bars, to get jailed |
| ⇒ 阿鼻地獄 | [ ā bí dì yù ] (Buddhism) the Avici Hell, the last and most painful of the eight hot hells |