罚 (fá) means Punish. Below are 5 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.
Dictionary examples
这里乱扔垃圾要 罚 款。
Zhèlǐ luàn rēng lājī yào fákuǎn.
Littering here carries a fine.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 罚款
他因为停错车被 罚 款了。
Tā yīnwèi tíng cuò chē bèi fákuǎn le.
He was fined for parking in the wrong place.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 罚款
违反规定的人会受到惩 罚 。
Wéifǎn guīdìng de rén huì shòudào chéngfá.
Anyone who breaks the rules will be punished.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 惩罚
惩 罚 不是目的，教育才是。
Chéngfá bú shì mùdì, jiàoyù cái shì.
Punishment is not the aim; education is.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 惩罚
那个判 罚 引起了对裁判的质疑。
Nàge pànfá yǐnqǐ le duì cáipàn de zhìyí.
That decision raised doubts about the referee.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 裁判
Reading these is one thing; producing 罚 yourself is another. Cloze in Context takes a sentence from this same bank, removes one word and asks you to put it back — beginner, intermediate and advanced.
Words that contain 罚
Each of these has sentences of its own, so you can see the character doing a different job in each one.
Questions about 罚
How is 罚 used in a sentence?
This page shows 5 sentences using 罚 (fá, "Punish"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.
Are these sentences machine generated?
No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.
Why do some sentences show 罚 inside a longer word?
Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 罚 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.
Where can I see the full entry for 罚?
The dictionary page for 罚 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.
Keep going
Read the full entry for 罚, write a sentence of your own and check it in the Pinyin Annotator, or search the whole sentence bank for another word.
Another word
Chinese, pinyin or English. Tone marks optional.