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刽

guì

Character Traditional 劊

What 刽 means

1. to amputate
2. to cut off
3. also pr. kuài

Words starting with 刽

• 刽子手guì zi shǒuexecutioner; headsman; slaughterer

Characters built on 会

These share the phonetic component 会 (huì), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 绘huìto draw; to paint; to depict; to portray
• 荟huìto flourish; luxuriant growth
• 烩huìto braise; to cook (rice etc) with vegetables, meat and water
• 桧guìChinese juniper (Juniperus chinensis); (old) coffin lid decoration; Taiwan pr. kuài

Characters that look like 刽

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 制zhìsystem; to control; to regulate
• 尚shàngstill; yet; to value
• 删shānto delete
• 招zhāoto recruit; to provoke; to beckon
• 剑jiàndouble-edged sword; classifier for blows of a sword
• 剁duòto chop up (meat etc); to chop off (sb's hand etc)

Sounds the same

Read guì, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 贵expensive; (bound form) highly valued; precious; (bound form) noble; of high rank
• 柜cupboard; cabinet; wardrobe
• 跪to kneel
• 桂cassia; laurel
• 桧Chinese juniper (Juniperus chinensis); (old) coffin lid decoration; Taiwan pr. kuài
• 攰totally exhausted (Cantonese); Mandarin equivalent: 累
• 鳜mandarin fish; Chinese perch (Siniperca chuatsi)
• 刿cut; injure
• 嶡precipitous; mountainous
• 溎name of a river
• 鱥minnow
• 筀bamboo (archaic)