惩罚 chéngfá▶ castigar

Stroke order

惩罚 is written in 21 strokes across 2 characters.

• 惩 — 12 strokes
• 罚 — 9 strokes

Senses

1. penalty
2. punishment
3. to punish

Related words

• 罚款confiscar; multar; multa

惩罚 is pronounced chéngfá and means “castigar”. It belongs to the HSK 6 vocabulary, one of the six bands of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi, China’s official Chinese proficiency exam. Recognising 惩罚 on a page and producing it in conversation are different skills, and only the second holds up when someone is waiting for an answer — so LexiTrail brings it back just as your memory of it starts to fade, not on a fixed weekly rota.