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罚

fá

HSK 5 Character Traditional 罰

What 罚 means

1. to punish; to penalize; to fine

Other readings

罚 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• fávariant of {罚|fá}

Example sentences

• 他会受罚。
  He'll be punished.
• 您不会受罚。
  You won't be punished.
• 汤姆要惩罚我。
  Tom wanted to punish me.
• 他不喜欢被惩罚。
  Tā bù xǐhuan bèi chéngfá.
  He does not like being punished.
• 我己经被惩罚了。
  I've already been punished.
• 他应当受到惩罚。
  He needs to be punished.

Words starting with 罚

• 罚款fá kuǎnto fine; penalty; fine (monetary)
• 罚金fá jīnfine; to forfeit
• 罚单fá dānviolation ticket; infringement notice
• 罚球fá qiúpenalty shot; penalty kick (in sports)
• 罚则fá zépenal provision; penalty
• 罚写fá xiěto make a student write sth out many times, as a punishment; writing lines
• 罚没fá mòto impose a fine and confiscate (property)
• 罚站fá zhànto be made to stand still as a punishment
• 罚酒fá jiǔto drink as the result of having lost a bet
• 罚钱fá qiánto fine
• 罚出场fá chū chǎng(of a referee) to send a player off the field
• 罚不当罪fá bù dāng zuìdisproportionate punishment; the punishment is harsher than the crime
• 罚跪fá guìto punish by protracted kneeling
• 罚半蹲fá bàn dūnto punish a student by having him stand in a half-squatting position with arms extended…
• 罚俸fá fèngto forfeit one's salary
• 罚锾fá huána fine

Words containing 罚

• 惩罚chéng fápenalty; punishment; to punish
• 处罚chǔ fáto penalize; to punish
• 刑罚xíng fásentence; penalty; punishment
• 体罚tǐ fácorporal punishment; to inflict physical punishment on (sb)
• 重罚zhòng fáto punish severely
• 判罚pàn fáto penalize; penalty
• 责罚zé fáto punish
• 主罚zhǔ fápenalty (kick)
• 绝罚jué fáto excommunicate
• 认罚rèn fáto accept punishment
• 罪与罚Zuì yǔ FáCrime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky 陀思妥耶夫斯基
• 开罚单kāi fá dānto issue an infringement notice
• 易科罚金yì kē fá jīnto commute a prison sentence to a fine (Tw)
• 有罪不罚yǒu zuì bù fáimpunity
• 赏罚shǎng fáreward and punishment
• 惩罚性chéng fá xìngpunitive
• 挨罚ái fáto be punished; to be fined
• 陟罚臧否zhì fá zāng pǐ(idiom) to evaluate the merits and demerits of…
• 敬酒不吃吃罚酒jìng jiǔ bù chī chī fá jiǔlit. to refuse a toast only to be forced to drink a forfeit (idiom)…

Characters that look like 罚

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 莉lìused in 茉莉; used in the transliteration of female names
• 窃qièto steal; secretly; (humble) I
• 茂màoluxuriant; (chemistry) cyclopentadiene
• 荫yīn(bound form) shade (of a tree)
• 茁zhuóto display vigorous, new growth; to sprout
• 昴mǎothe Pleiades

Sounds the same

Read fá, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 乏short of; tired
• 伐to cut down; to fell; to dispatch an expedition against
• 阀powerful individual, family or group; clique; (loanword) valve
• 筏raft (of logs)
• 垡to turn the soil; upturned soil; (used in place names)
• 橃large boat; old variant of 筏
• 茷denseness of grass-foliage