懲

Meaning

懲 centers on imposing corrective suffering for wrongdoing: penalizing, chastising, punishing, or disciplining someone to deter future misbehavior.

• 懲役ちょうえき
  N1

  penal servitude; imprisonment with hard labor (hard labour)

• 懲戒ちょうかい

  discipline; punishment; reprimand

• 懲りるこりる
  N1

  to learn by experience; to learn one's lesson; to learn the hard way

• 懲罰ちょうばつ

  discipline; punishment; reprimand

• 懲らしめるこらしめる

  to chastise; to punish; to discipline

• 勧善懲悪かんぜんちょうあく

  rewarding good and punishing evil; poetic justice

• 性懲りしょうこり

  repenting; improving one's nature

• 懲り懲りこりごり

  having had enough (of); fed up (with); sick and tired (of)

• 懲罰委員会ちょうばついいんかい

  disciplinary committee

• これに懲りずにこれにこりずに

  without being discouraged by this (experience); without letting this put (you) off; without being held back by this

• これに懲りよ道才坊これにこりよどうさいぼう

  take it as a lesson learned; learn from this (mistake)

• 勧善懲悪劇かんぜんちょうあくげき

  morality play

• 勧善懲悪小説かんぜんちょうあくしょうせつ

  (Edo-period) didactic novel or fiction

• 勧懲かんちょう

  rewarding good and punishing evil

• 性懲りもないしょうこりもない

  incorrigible; dogged

• 性懲りもなくしょうこりもなく

  not having learned one's lesson; never changing one's ways; doggedly; in spite of one's negative experiences

• 悪を懲らすあくをこらす

  to punish the wicked

• 懲らしめこらしめ

  chastisement

• 懲らすこらす

  to chastise; to punish; to discipline

• 懲りないこりない

  (someone who) doesn't learn their lesson; obstinate

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