(bound form) To tear off limbs or split the body as a form of capital punishment in ancient China; also used for the quartering of livestock.

(bound form) An old term for the right-falling calligraphy stroke, now commonly called 捺 nà.

(literary) To spread out or open wide; to expand.

The sound of birds chirping, often used in the doubled form 磔磔 zhé​zhé.