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缠足
chán​zú

to bind feet

Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
缠足 纏足 chán//zú
to bind feet
to bind a girl's feet to make them small and deformed; the historical practice of foot-binding in China

Frequency

Written text
0.260 per million

Cross-References

Same as

  • 裹脚 guǒ​jiǎo
  • 缠脚 chán​jiǎo
  • 扎脚 zā​jiǎo
  • 裹足 guǒ​zú

Synonym

  • 三寸金莲 sān​cùn​jīn​lián

Sources

Frequency data
BCC Corpus (BLCU)
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