chéng

punish

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
心 meaning component

  Meaning component

xīn

  

heart

征 sound component

  Sound component

zhēng

  

journey

Evolution

惩 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
惩 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
惩 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

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chéng

punish, reprimand; warn; to punish; to reprimand; to warn

Most common words with 惩
Freq.
Word
Meaning

惩罚

penalty

严惩

to punish severely

惩治

to punish

惩处

to punish

奖惩

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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