chéng

punish

Components
徴 sound component

  Sound component

zhēng

  

summon

心 meaning component

  Meaning component

xīn

  

heart

heart

Evolution

懲 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
懲 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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chéng

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

Most common words with 懲
Freq.
Word
Meaning

惩罚

penalty

严惩

to punish severely

惩治

to punish

惩处

to punish

奖惩

rewards and penalties

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*m-trəŋ

dring

chéng

reprove; punish


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

19

Simplified

Unicode

U+61F2

Shuowen

“懲,也。从心,徵聲。”


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