懲

to punish / to reprimand / to warn

to invite / to recruit / to levy (taxes) / to draft (troops) / phenomenon / symptom / characteristic sign (used as proof) / evidence

4th note in pentatonic scale 五音[wu3 yin1], roughly sol / see also 徵|征[zheng1]

heart / mind / intention / center / core / CL:顆|颗[ke1],個|个[ge4]

penalty / punishment / to punish

to discipline / reprimand

to punish severely

to punish

punitive

to punish / to administer justice

to punish (someone) / to take disciplinary action against (someone)

to punish severely (idiom)

rewards and penalties

to punish severely

lit. punish one to warn one hundred (idiom) / fig. to make an example of sb

to encourage virtue and punish evil (idiom); fig. poetic justice / you get what's coming to you

lit. to punish a little to prevent a lot (idiom); to criticize former mistakes firmly to prevent large scale repetition

to deal with sb severely (idiom)

lit. punish one, warn one hundred (idiom) / fig. to make an example of sb

lit. punish one, warn one hundred (idiom) / fig. to make an example of sb / also written 懲一儆百|惩一儆百[cheng2 yi1 jing3 bai3]

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

see 懲惡揚善|惩恶扬善[cheng2 e4 yang2 shan4]

to uphold virtue and condemn evil (idiom)