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肢解

zhī jiě

2-character word

What 肢解 means

1. to dismember
2. (fig.) to break into parts

The characters in 肢解

• 肢zhīlimb
• 解jiěto divide; to break up; to split

Sounds the same

Read zhī jiě, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 支解variant of 肢解
• 枝解variant of 肢解

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