小惩大诫 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 小懲大誡 xiǎochéngdàjiè ㄒㄧㄠˇ ㄔㄥˊ ㄉㄚˋ ㄐㄧㄝˋ lit. to punish a little to prevent a lot (idiom) to criticize former mistakes firmly to prevent large scale repetition Character by character 小(xiǎo)small 惩(chéng)punish 大(dà)big 诫(jiè)commandment A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0