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五马分尸

wǔ mǎ fēn shī

4-character word Traditional 五馬分屍

What 五马分尸 means

1. idiomto tear off sb's four limbs and head using five horse-drawn carts (historical form of capital punishment); (fig.) to tear apart; to utterly destroy; to brutally dismember

The characters in 五马分尸

• 五wǔfive; 5
• 马mǎhorse; horse or cavalry piece in Chinese chess; knight in Western chess
• 分fēnto divide; to separate; to distribute; to allocate; to distinguish (good and bad)
• 尸shī(literary) person representing the deceased (during burial ceremonies)…