刖

yuè

Rank #5469

Definitions

yuè to amputate one or both feet (punishment in imperial China) (one of the five mutilating punishments 五刑[wǔ xíng])

Etymology

Originally a pictograph of a saw cutting off a person's foot. Later the character was changed to a phonosemantic compound. 刂 represents the meaning and 月 represents the sound.

Semantic: 刂 Phonetic: 月

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Oracle (~1250-1000 BC)

Seal Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

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Composed characters:

Component: 刂

Component: 月

Components

刂月