髡 kūn scalping, make the head bald as corporal punishment Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 髡 kūn to shave the head (bound form) to shave the head as a form of corporal punishment in ancient China to prune to trim or cut off the branches of a tree Cross-References See 髡刑 kūnxíngReferenced by 刑余 xíngyúHas variant 髠 kūn髨 kūn Frequency Character Written text 4,754th most common 1.22 per million Word Written text 2.07 per million Details Strokes 13 Unicode U+9AE1 Sources Frequency data MTSU Chinese text computingBCC Corpus (BLCU)
髡 kūn to shave the head (bound form) to shave the head as a form of corporal punishment in ancient China to prune to trim or cut off the branches of a tree