Keyword
cutting off the feet as a form of punishment
- Frequency
- #6275
- Strokes
- 6
Readings
yuè
Mnemonic
刂 (knife) gives the meaning and 月 the sound.
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Used in vocabulary
刖
to amputate one or both feet (punishment in imperial China) (one of the five mutilating punishments 五刑 (wǔxíng))