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磔

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to dismember, tear apart; downward stroke slanting right

Strokes
15
Frequency
No. 4,593
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What 磔 means

old term for the right-falling stroke in Chinese characters (e.g. the last stroke of 大), now called 捺; sound made by birds (onom.); (literary) to dismember (form of punishment); to spread

Pictophonetic: semantic 石 (rock), phonetic 桀

Made of 石 + 桀

Characters that sound like 磔

这着者著折哲遮辙柘蔗褶蛰蜇辄鹧赭浙