Illustration: During an amateur football match on a Japanese municipal sports ground, a referee holds up a dismissal card and firmly points toward the exit. The penalized player, caught after deliberately pulling an opponent's shirt, releases the stretched fabric and lowers their head.

JLPT N1suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

処しょ罰ばつ

shobatsu

to punish, to penalize

Example sentences

  1. トムは本当ほんとうのこと言いわなかったので、処罰しょばつされました。

    Tom was punished because he didn’t tell the truth.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 彼女かのじょは微笑ほほえみを浮うかべてその処罰しょばつを受うけ入いれた。

    She took the punishment with a smile.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. また、動員どういんを拒否きょひした場合ばあいは処罰しょばつの対象たいしょうとなることもあった。

    When a samurai refused to accept a mobilization request, he could be punished.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 処罰

  • 処dispose; manageOnショKunところ・おる
  • 罰penalty; punishmentOnバツ・バチ・ハツKunばっする

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