- guilty and deserves to be punished (idiom); entirely appropriate chastisement
- the punishment fits the crime
Characters
- 罪 (罪): guilt; crime; fault; blame; sin
- 有 (有): to have; there is; (bound form) having; with; -ful; -ed; -al (as in 有意[you3 yi4] intentional)
- 应 (應): surname Ying; Taiwan pr. [Ying4]
- 得 (得): to obtain; to get; to gain; to catch (a disease); proper; suitable; proud; contented; to allow; to permit; ready; finished
Resources
- Wiktionary: 罪有应得
- MDBG: 罪有应得
- Examples with 罪有应得 on Tatoeba
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