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磔

zhé

Character

What 磔 means

1. old term for the right-falling stroke in Chinese characters (e.g. the last stroke of {大|dà}), now called {捺|nà}
2. sound made by birds (onom.)
3. literaryto dismember (form of punishment)
4. to spread

Sounds the same

Read zhé, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 哲wise; a sage
• 折to break; to fracture; to snap
• 辙rut; track of a wheel (Taiwan pr. chè); (colloquial) the direction of traffic…
• 乙turning stroke (in Chinese characters), aka 折
• 辄then; at once; always
• 蛰to hibernate
• 摺document folded in accordion form; to fold
• 谪to relegate a high official to a minor post in an outlying region…
• 蜇jellyfish
• 晢bright
• 悊to revere; to respect; variant of 哲
• 乇"blade of grass" component in Chinese characters