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causing injury; resulting in injury
Legal-jargon noun meaning 'causing bodily injury'. Attaches to other criminal-act nouns to form aggravated offense names — e.g., 'robbery resulting in injury'.
Compound of 致 ('to bring about, to cause') + 傷 ('injury'). Almost exclusively used in legal terminology to name aggravated forms of an underlying crime — one that resulted in an injury without the perpetrator necessarily intending it.
Compounds
- 強盗致傷: robbery causing injury
- 傷害致死: assault causing death (parallel form with 致死)
- 過失致傷: negligent injury
- 〜致傷罪: the crime of ~ causing injury
Usage
Never used as a standalone word in everyday speech. You will see it almost exclusively in news headlines, court documents, and crime reporting. The parallel suffix for fatal cases is 致死 (causing death).