劝善惩恶 — Chinese idiom
劝善惩恶
quàn shàn chéng è
Traditional: 勸善懲惡
Meaning
- to encourage virtue and punish evil ; fig. poetic justice
- you get what's coming to you
Character by character
- 劝quànto recommend, to advise; to urge, to exhort
- 善shàngood, virtuous, charitable, kind
- 惩chéngto discipline, to punish, to reprimand, to warn
- 恶èbad, evil, wicked; to hate, to loathe; foul, nause
Idioms sharing a character
- 屡劝不听 lǚ quàn bù tīng
- 乏善可陈 fá shàn kě chén
- 兼善天下 jiān shàn tiān xià
- 善始善终 shàn shǐ shàn zhōng
- 善有善报 shàn yǒu shàn bào
- 善罢甘休 shàn bà gān xiū
- 善自为谋 shàn zì wéi móu
- 善自珍摄 shàn zì zhēn shè
- 善解人意 shàn jiě rén yì
- 善财难舍 shàn cái nán shě
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