{"path":"/entry/42816","title":"惩恶劝善 / 懲惡勸善 (chéng è quàn shàn) — Chinese Dictionary | Flashbao","description":"惩恶劝善 / 懲惡勸善 (chéng è quàn shàn): see 惩恶扬善 chéng è yáng shàn. Explore meanings, example sentences and vocabulary decks.","catalog":null,"deck":null,"entry":{"reading":{"id":42816,"orthography":{"forms":{"SIMPLIFIED":["惩恶劝善"],"TRADITIONAL":["懲惡勸善"]}},"phonetic":"chéng è quàn shàn","phoneticKey":"cheng2 e4 quan4 shan4","meanings":{"primary":[{"qualifier":null,"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"see ","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null},{"kind":"REF","text":null,"orthography":{"forms":{"SIMPLIFIED":["惩恶扬善"],"TRADITIONAL":["懲惡揚善"]}},"phonetic":"chéng è yáng shàn","phoneticKey":"cheng2 e4 yang2 shan4","readingId":42817}]}]}]}],"additional":[],"notes":[],"variantMeanings":[]},"classifiers":[],"pos":[],"frequency":null,"grammar":[],"spokenPhonetic":null},"otherReadings":[],"examples":[],"carriedReadings":[],"constructions":[],"status":null,"due":null,"reps":null,"lapses":null,"lastReview":null,"senses":[{"label":null,"relations":[{"kind":"SYNONYM","readingId":15692,"orthography":{"forms":{"SIMPLIFIED":["劝善惩恶"],"TRADITIONAL":["勸善懲惡"]}},"phonetic":"quàn shàn chéng è","gloss":{"simplified":"to encourage virtue and punish evil (idiom)","traditional":null}}],"primary":true}],"origins":[{"literal":null,"content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":{"simplified":"From the Zuo zhuan, late 4th century BCE","traditional":null}}],"examples":[{"text":{"simplified":"春秋之称，微而显，志而晦，婉而成章，尽而不污，惩恶而劝善，非圣人谁能修之？","traditional":"春秋之稱，微而顯，志而晦，婉而成章，盡而不污，懲惡而勸善，非聖人誰能脩之？"},"phonetic":"Chūnqiū zhī chēng, wēi ér xiǎn, zhì ér huì, wǎn ér chéngzhāng, jìn ér bù wū, chéng'è ér quànshàn, fēi shèngrén shéi néng xiū zhī?","english":"The Spring and Autumn Annals, in the appellations which it uses, is clear with an exquisite minuteness, distinct through obscurity, elegant by its gentle turns, and full without descending to be low, condemning what is evil, and encouraging what is good;—who but the sage [Confucius] could have compiled it as it is?","ref":"Commentary of Zuo, c. 4ᵗʰ century BCE"}],"senseScoped":false}],"decks":[{"id":27,"sourceName":"Chengyu","name":"Chengyu"}],"vocabularyScale":null,"vocabularyLevel":null}}