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惩前毖后

chéng qián bì hòu

4-character word Traditional 懲前毖後

What 惩前毖后 means

  1. lit. to punish those before to prevent those after (idiom); to criticize former mistakes firmly to prevent them happening again

The characters in 惩前毖后

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