剄

Translingual

Etymology

刀 + the sound 巠 (straight)

Han character

剄 (radical 18 刀+7, 9 strokes, cangjie input 一一中弓 (MMLN), four-corner 1210₀)

1. cut throat (Chinese ritual suicide, like seppuku in Japan)

Synonyms

• 刎

References

• KangXi: page 139, character 27
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1990
• Dae Jaweon: page 317, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 340, character 3
• Unihan data for U+5244

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Cantonese

Hanzi

剄 (simplified 刭, Yale ging2)

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Japanese

Kanji

剄

Readings

• On: けい (kei)
• Kun: くびきる (kubikiru)

Compounds

• 剄死

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Korean

Hanja

剄 (hangeul 경, revised gyeong, McCune-Reischauer kyŏng)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

剄 (simplified 刭, pinyin jǐng (jing3), Wade-Giles ching³)

Last modified on 18 August 2012, at 09:05