惩前毖后 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 懲前毖後 chéngqiánbìhòu ㄔㄥˊ ㄑㄧㄢˊ ㄅㄧˋ ㄏㄡˋ lit. to punish those before to prevent those after (idiom) to criticize former mistakes firmly to prevent them happening again Character by character 惩(chéng)punish 前(qián)front 毖(bì)careful 后(hòu)surname Hou A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0