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刺字
cì​zì

to tattoo characters

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
刺字 cì//zì
to tattoo characters
To tattoo words or characters into the skin with needles and ink
penal tattooing
The historical punishment of branding or tattooing characters onto a criminal's face or arm

Frequency

Written text
0.208 per million

Cross-References

See

  • 黥刑 qíng​xíng

Synonym

  • 纹面 wén​miàn

Sources

Frequency data
BCC Corpus (BLCU)