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髡钳
kūn​qián

ancient punishment

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髡钳 髡鉗 kūn​qián
ancient punishment
(literary) Ancient Chinese punishment involving shaving the head and shackling the neck; shaving the hair was called 髡 kūn and using an iron collar was called 钳 qián