断发文身
duàn​fà​wén​shēn

to cut hair and tattoo the body

  • created sense approved 断发文身/斷髮文身 · duàn​fà​wén​shēn · to cut hair and tattoo the body — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    断发文身 / 斷髮文身

    duàn​fà​wén​shēn

    to cut hair and tattoo the body

    to cut one's hair short and tattoo the body; refers to the ancient customs of the Wu and Yue peoples, often used in literary contexts to describe uncivilized or barbarous ways

    duàn​fǎ​wén​shēn

    断 (literal) → 断/斷 · duàn · to cut off 发 (bound) → 发/髮 · fà · hair 文身 (literal) → 文身 · wén​shēn · to tattoo

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense