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漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People

罰: penalty, punishment

JLPT N114 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met

罒 carries the meaning · 䚯 is drawn in

14 strokes
  • Bronze · Warring States
  • Today

Bronze: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Two readings, and the words that use each

バツbatsu · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 罰ばつpunishment; penalty
  • 体罰たいばつcorporal punishment
  • 処罰しょばつ
  • 懲罰ちょうばつdiscipline; punishment; reprimand
  • 刑罰けいばつ(criminal) punishment; penalty; sentence
  • 賞罰しょうばつreward and punishment

ばっするbassuru · kun'yomi · on its own

  • 罰金ばっきんfine; penalty
  • 罰則ばっそく

Also read バチ, ハツ, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.

成り立ち

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Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Watch from above! Imagine an eye turned on its side to peer down from the roof of a building.”
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered

Also read バツ

5 kanji share this on'yomi
In ChineseSimplified 罚 · traditional, as in Japanese · fá

Japan keeps the traditional form 罰; mainland China simplifies it to 罚.

Simplified
罚 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
罰 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin fá most common reading

Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.

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