The kanji 罰: meaning, readings and stroke order
罰
- Meaning
- punishment, penalty
- On reading
- バツ batsu、バチ bachi
- Kun reading
- —
- Strokes
- 14
- Radical
- 网 net
- Level
- Level 7 · junior high school
Stroke order
Meaning in other languages
- Vietnamese
- phạt, hình phạt (phạt)
- Japanese
- ばつ。わるい ことへの むくい。
- Korean
- 벌
- Chinese
- 惩罚、处罚 (罚)
Readings, words and example sentences
バツ batsu · on reading
罰金
fine (money paid as a punishment)
罰金を はらいました。
He paid a fine.
バチ bachi · on reading · less common
罰
punishment from heaven
うそを つくと 罰が 当たります。
If you lie, you will be punished for it.
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Readings, radicals: Kanjium, KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); strokes: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); Korean, simplified forms: Unicode Unihan. Meanings, sentences: Dino Kids (CC0). See Licences.