chéng
punish
Phonosemantic compound. 心 represents the meaning and 征 represents the sound. Simplified form of 懲.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernMost common words with 惩
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
penalty | ||
to punish severely | ||
to punish | ||
to punish | ||
rewards and penalties |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 15.7136% of movies
1716th most common character in movies
1821st most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+60E9 |
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