a kind of punishment in Han Dynasty

knight
(bound form) name of the red knight piece in Chinese chess, used to distinguish it from the black piece
punishment
(literary) an ancient form of punishment used during the Han Dynasty
Ma
a surname
horse
(Chinese chess) horse; knight, written specifically on the red side to distinguish it from the black side piece
to scold
(archaic variant of ) to scold; to curse; to abuse; to verbally abuse
(ancient punishment)
(bound form) an ancient form of criminal punishment in the Han Dynasty involving public shaming

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Frequency

Written text
0.003 per million

Details

Simplified
Strokes
12
Unicode
U+508C

Sources

Frequency data
BCC Corpus (BLCU)