HSK5

penalty

To punish  the accused 

Components

Meaning component
wǎng net or eye
Meaning component
yán speech
Meaning component
dāo knife

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Warring States ~250 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartbjot[b][a]t punish

說文解字

《說文》:“罰,辠之小者。从刀,从詈。未以刀有所賊,但持刀罵詈則應罰。”

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica

penalty Simplified

Simplified form of ; to punish  the accused 

Components

Meaning component
wǎng net or eye
Meaning component
yán speech
Meaning component
dāo knife

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode