Chinese Character Wiki

罰

fá

penalty

To punish 刂 the accused 詈

Components
罒 meaning component

罒  Meaning component

wǎng

  

Radical 122

言 meaning component

言  Meaning component

yán

  

speech

刂 meaning component

刂  Meaning component

dāo

  

knife

Evolution

罰 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
罰 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
罰 Clerical script Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Clerical script

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
罰 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

罚 (罰) 

fá

penalty, fine; punish, penalize; to punish; to penalize

Most common words with 罰
Freq.
Word
Meaning

惩罚

penalty

罚

to punish

处罚

to penalize

罚款

to fine

罚金

fine

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[b][a]t

bjot

fá

punish


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 23.5304% of movies

1360th most common character in movies

1215th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Simplified

罚

Unicode

U+7F70

Shuowen

“罰，辠之小者。从刀，从詈。未以刀有所賊，但持刀罵詈則應罰。”


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