口袋罪

Chinese

		pocket; bag; sack	guilt; crime; fault guilt; crime; fault; blame; sin
trad. (口袋罪)		口袋	罪
simp. #(口袋罪)		口袋	罪

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): kǒudàizuì

  (Zhuyin): ㄎㄡˇ ㄉㄞˋ ㄗㄨㄟˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): hau² doi^6-2 zeoi⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: kǒudàizuì
    • Zhuyin: ㄎㄡˇ ㄉㄞˋ ㄗㄨㄟˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: kǒudàizuèi
    • Wade–Giles: kʻou³-tai⁴-tsui⁴
    • Yale: kǒu-dài-dzwèi
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: kooudaytzuey
    • Palladius: коудайцзуй (koudajczuj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰoʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ taɪ̯⁵¹⁻⁵³ t͡su̯eɪ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: hau² doi^6-2 zeoi⁶
    • Yale: háu dói jeuih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hau² doi^6-2 dzoey⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: heo² doi^6-2 zêu⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hɐu̯³⁵ tɔːi̯²²⁻³⁵ t͡sɵy̯²²/

Noun

口袋罪

1. (law, figurative) fuzzily-defined offences; catch-all offences
   • 2023 May 12, Serge Schmemann, “Things in Russia Aren’t as Bad as the Bad Old Soviet Days. ‘They’re Worse.’”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     在蘇聯統治的最後幾十年，用來關押異見人士的最常見罪名是「反蘇煽動和宣傳」，這條口袋罪至少還明確針對了反對蘇聯統治的罪行。 [MSC, trad.]
     在苏联统治的最后几十年，用来关押异见人士的最常见罪名是「反苏煽动和宣传」，这条口袋罪至少还明确针对了反对苏联统治的罪行。 [MSC, simp.]

     Zài Sūlián tǒngzhì de zuìhòu jǐ shínián, yònglái guānyā yìjiànrénshì de zuì chángjiàn zuìmíng shì “fǎn Sū shāndòng hé xuānchuán”, zhè tiáo kǒudàizuì zhìshào hái míngquè zhēnduì le fǎnduì Sūlián tǒngzhì de zuìxíng. [Pinyin]

     If the most common charge used to imprison dissidents in the last decades of Soviet rule was “anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda,” an omnibus law that at least made clear that the crime was in opposing Soviet rule.