PENALTY    罰款罰

MONEY to be PAID as PUNISHMENT.
PUNISHMENTSANCTIONPUNITIVE ACTIONRETRIBUTIONFINEFORFEITSENTENCEPENANCEFORMAL MULCT
Old Chinese Criteria
1. The general word for a fine is fá 罰, and the word refers to fines of any kind. 2. Zī 貲 refers to a minor fine for a minor offence according to SHUOWEN and also in the Qin laws.
Modern Chinese Criteria
罰款 罰鍰 刑罰 處罰 rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／
Hypernym
  • PUNISH　RESTRAIN OR DAMAGE a CULPRIT BECAUSE of his/her CRIMES. (anc: 15/0, child: 5)
  • RESTRAIN　HINDER from being UNRESTRAINED. (anc: 14/0, child: 2)
  • HINDER　STOP from ACT:doing what someone or something INTENDS to ACT:do. (anc: 13/0, child: 4)
  • A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages ( BUCK 1988) p. 21.37

  • Historisches Woerterbuch der Philosophie ( RITTER 1971-2007) p. 10.208

  • Histoire des moeurs ( POIRIER 1991) p. 2.611-698

    • Words (3 items)

    罰  fá OC: bod MC: bi̯ɐt 6 Attributions

    The general word for a fine is fá 罰, and the word refers to fines of any kind.

      Word relations
    • Object: 赦/PARDON Shè 赦 (ant. zuì 罪 "hold criminally responsible") refers specifically and technically to the legal act of pardoning a convicted culprit.
    • Contrast: 刑/PUNISH Xíng 刑 refers specifically to physical punishment.

      Syntactic words
    • na fine
    • nabactthe imposing of penalties
    • npost-Npenalty imposed by NDS
    貲  zī OC: tse MC: tsiɛ 1 Attribution

    Zī 貲 refers to a minor fine for a minor offence according to SHUOWEN and also in the Qin laws.

      Syntactic words
    • vttoN1.+N2impose a fine of (money or things N2) on (a culprit N1)
    金分  jīn fèn MC: kim pjun OC: krɯm bɯns 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • NPcash penalty; fineCH