Penalty in Chinese
penalty · HSK 5
罚款
- 罚 to punish
- 款 sum of money
Counted with 笔: 一笔罚款
他交了两百元罚款。 He paid a fine of two hundred yuan.
Other ways to say penalty
More words with 罚 or 款
How do you say penalty in Chinese?
Penalty in Chinese is 罚款 (fá kuǎn). You can also say 罚 (fá), 惩罚 (chéng fá), 处罚 (chǔ fá).
Which word should I use?
Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.
Where do these words come from?
Our own dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.
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