黥
qíng

tattoo criminals on the face

黥 qíng
to tattoo criminals
(bound form) an ancient punishment involving tattooing a criminal's face or forehead with ink; later used on servants and soldiers to prevent them from escaping
to tattoo
(bound form) to tattoo patterns or designs on the skin for decoration
Qing
the Chinese surname Qing

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Frequency
Character
Written text
6,278th most common 0.212 per million
Word
Written text
0.169 per million

Details
Strokes
20
Unicode
U+9EE5

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingBCC Corpus (BLCU)