刖
yuè

cutting off feet as form of punishment

刖 yuè
to amputate the feet
(bound form) to cut off one or both feet; an ancient Chinese criminal punishment, one of the five mutilations known as 五刑 wǔ​xíng
to cut off
(literary) to cut off or sever, such as a finger or hand

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Frequency
Character
Written text
5,475th most common 0.605 per million
Word
Written text
0.705 per million

Details
Strokes
6
Unicode
U+5216

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingBCC Corpus (BLCU)