chéngfá

penalty / punishment / to punish

chéng

to punish / to reprimand / to warn

yánchéng

to punish severely

quànshànchéngè

to encourage virtue and punish evil (idiom); fig. poetic justice / you get what's coming to you

shòuchéngfá

punished

yánchéngbùdài

to punish strictly with no leniency (idiom); to punish and show no mercy / zero tolerance

cóngyánchéngchǔ

to deal with sb severely (idiom)

zhòngchéng

to punish severely

chéngyījǐngbǎi

lit. punish one, warn one hundred (idiom) / fig. to make an example of sb / also written [[懲一儆百|惩一儆百<chéngyījǐngbǎi>]]

chéngqiánbìhòu

lit. to punish those before to prevent those after (idiom); to criticize former mistakes firmly to prevent them happening again