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Meanings

CC-CEDICT

  1. 1.horse stable
  2. 2.frontier

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Wiktionary

  1. 1.prison
  2. 2.to keep the horse
  3. 3.one who keeps the horse; horse keeper
  4. 4.frontier

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Etymology

Pictogram (象形). An enclosure (囗) with a hand-restricting instrument (㚔 (niè)) — prison. In many oracle bone engravements, there was a form composed of 囗 + 執 /执 (zhí); it additionally depicted a kneeling human who is confined with the forementioned instrument.

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Components from cjk-decomp · MIT

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