磔
zhé

to dismember

磔 zhé
chirp
An onomatopoeic representation of the sounds made by birds.
dismember
An ancient form of capital punishment involving the dismemberment of the body.
right-falling stroke noun
An ancient term for the right-falling stroke in Chinese calligraphy, currently known as 'na'.
spread punctuation
To spread out or extend, often used in a literary context.

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
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingBCC Corpus (BLCU)