刑事法典

Chinese

		penal; criminal	legal code; statute
simp. and trad. (刑事法典)		刑事	法典

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xíngshì fǎdiǎn

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄥˊ ㄕˋ ㄈㄚˇ ㄉㄧㄢˇ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xíngshì fǎdiǎn [Phonetic: xíngshìfádiǎn]
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄥˊ ㄕˋ ㄈㄚˇ ㄉㄧㄢˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: síngshìh fǎdiǎn
    • Wade–Giles: hsing²-shih⁴ fa³-tien³
    • Yale: syíng-shr̀ fǎ-dyǎn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shyngshyh faadean
    • Palladius: синши фадянь (sinši fadjanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕiŋ³⁵ ʂʐ̩⁵¹ fä²¹⁴⁻³⁵ ti̯ɛn²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

Noun

刑事法典

1. (criminal law) criminal code
   • 1994, Law Reform Commission of Hong Kong, “Codification: The Preliminary Offences of Incitement, Conspiracy and Attempt”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎^[1], page 1:

     刑事法典整理現行的成文法，又將司法裁決中所定下的普通法加入其中。它可以是一套完整的法律，可完全取代以前存在的法律，亦可以是局部的，仍然保留某些先前經已存在的規則。 [MSC, trad.]
     刑事法典整理现行的成文法，又将司法裁决中所定下的普通法加入其中。它可以是一套完整的法律，可完全取代以前存在的法律，亦可以是局部的，仍然保留某些先前经已存在的规则。 [MSC, simp.]

     Xíngshìfǎdiǎn zhěnglǐ xiànxíng de chéngwénfǎ, yòu jiāng sīfǎ cáijué zhōng suǒ dìng xià de pǔtōngfǎ jiārù qízhōng. Tā kěyǐ shì yī tào wánzhěng de fǎlǜ, kě wánquán qǔdài yǐqián cúnzài de fǎlǜ, yì kěyǐ shì júbù de, réngrán bǎoliú mǒuxiē xiānqián jīngyǐ cúnzài de guīzé. [Pinyin]

     A criminal code consolidates existing statute law and incorporates into it the common law as laid down in judicial decisions. The code may be a complete body of law that purports to replace entirely the preexisting law or it may be partial to the extent that certain pre-existing rules remain.