to punish, penalize, or fine for a mistake, violation, or crime

Negative adverb used before verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs to indicate negation; also used as a bound-form prefix to form terms with opposite meanings

(bound form) to punish; to flog; to beat as punishment

(bound form) a crowd; a multitude; the general public, as in 群众 qún​zhòng or 公众 gōng​zhòng