磔 zhé to dismember Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 磔 zhé to dismember (bound form) To tear off limbs or split the body as a form of capital punishment in ancient China; also used for the quartering of livestock. [calligraphy stroke] (bound form) An old term for the right-falling calligraphy stroke, now commonly called 捺 nà. to spread (literary) To spread out or open wide; to expand. [onomatopoeia] The sound of birds chirping, often used in the doubled form 磔磔 zhézhé. Cross-References See 车裂 chēliè磔磔 zhézhéSame as 捺 nà Frequency Character Written text 5,597th most common 0.532 per million Word Written text 0.142 per million Details Strokes 15 Unicode U+78D4 Sources Frequency data MTSU Chinese text computingBCC Corpus (BLCU)
磔 zhé to dismember (bound form) To tear off limbs or split the body as a form of capital punishment in ancient China; also used for the quartering of livestock. [calligraphy stroke] (bound form) An old term for the right-falling calligraphy stroke, now commonly called 捺 nà. to spread (literary) To spread out or open wide; to expand. [onomatopoeia] The sound of birds chirping, often used in the doubled form 磔磔 zhézhé.
