Keyword
sound made by birds
- to dismember
- to tear apart
- Frequency
- #5429
- Strokes
- 15
Readings
zhé
Mnemonic
石 (rock) gives the meaning and 桀 the sound.
Stroke order
Composed of
Used in vocabulary
磔
old term for the right-falling stroke in Chinese characters (e.g. the last stroke of 大 (dà)), now called 捺 (nà); sound made by birds (onom.); (literary) to dismember (form of punishment); to spread