惩懲 in English

How it used to be written

These are the forms of 懲, the traditional character: 惩 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

• Small seal script

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

Examples

• 如果他犯了罪，他应该受到惩罚。

  He must be fined if he breaks the law.

• 您为什么惩罚他们？

  What are you punishing them for?

• 我母亲从来没有惩罚过我。

  My mother never punishes me.

• 要是我们做了同样的事，我们将会受到惩罚。

  Were we to do such a thing, we should be punished.

• 那是犯罪行为，你肯定会受到惩罚的!

  That is a criminal offense, and you will surely be punished!

All example sentences with 惩