五馬分屍
Chinese edit
five | horse; surname | to cut a corpse into pieces; to split or dismember a corpse | ||
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trad. (五馬分屍) | 五 | 馬 | 分屍 | |
simp. (五马分尸) | 五 | 马 | 分尸 |
Pronunciation edit
Idiom edit
五馬分屍
- (historical) to dismember a body by having five horses pull the limbs and head
- (figurative) to sentence someone capital punishment; to execute
- (figurative) to split something up into small fragments