刖
Meanings
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- 1.to amputate one or both feet (punishment in imperial China) (one of the five mutilating punishments 五刑[wǔ xíng])
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- 1.to cut off one or both feet as a form of punishment, one of the 五刑 (wǔxíng, “Five Punishments”)
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Etymology
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *ŋroːd, *ŋod, *ŋuːd): phonetic 月 (OC *ŋod) + semantic 刂. Related to 兀 (OC *ŋuːd, “to cut the feet”) (Wang, 1982; Schuessler, 2007).
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