Chinese symbol for “punish”
制裁
zhì cái
to punish; punishment; sanctions (incl. economic)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for punish is 制裁 (zhì cái), defined as: to punish; punishment; sanctions (incl. economic).
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “punish”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 罚 (罰) | fá | to punish; to penalize; to fine |
| 惩处 (懲處) | chéng chǔ | to punish; to administer justice |
| 惩治 (懲治) | chéng zhì | to punish |
| 惩 (懲) | chéng | to punish; to reprimand |
| 惩办 (懲辦) | chéng bàn | to punish (someone); to take disciplinary action against (someone) |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 制裁.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 控制 | kòng zhì | to control |
| 制度 | zhì dù | system (e.g. political, adminstrative etc); institution |
| 限制 | xiàn zhì | to restrict; to limit |
| 制作 (製作) | zhì zuò | to make; to manufacture |
| 制造 (製造) | zhì zào | to manufacture; to make |
| 体制 (體制) | tǐ zhì | system; organization |
| 总裁 (總裁) | zǒng cái | chairman; director-general (of a company etc) |
| 独裁 (獨裁) | dú cái | dictatorship |
See also: Japanese symbol for “punish”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.