馘
guóxù

cut off left ear

馘 guó
to cut off left ears
(bound form) literary practice of cutting off the left ear of a slain enemy as evidence of success in battle
severed left ear
(bound form) literary term for the left ear of a slain enemy, presented as evidence of battle service
馘 xù
face
(bound form) literary term for the face or cheeks

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Frequency
Character
Written text
6,759th most common 0.093 per million
Word
Written text
0.034 per million

Details
Strokes
17
Unicode
U+9998

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingBCC Corpus (BLCU)