车裂
车裂
chē liè
to tear off a person's four limbs and head using five horse drawn carts (as capital punishment); to tear limb from limb
verb
Traditional: 車裂
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- (verb) to tear off a person's four limbs and head using five horse drawn carts (as capital punishment)
- to tear limb from limb
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Related Words
轘(huàn)— to tear between chariots (as punishment)
→肢体(zhī tǐ)— limb
→五刑(wǔ xíng)— imperial five punishments of feudal China, up to Han times: tattooing characters on the forehead 墨[mo4], cutting off the nose 劓[yi4], amputation of one or both feet 刖[yue4], castration 宮|宫[gong1], execution 大辟[da4 pi4]
→不见棺材不落泪(bù jiàn guān cai bù luò lèi)— lit. not to shed a tear until one sees the coffin (idiom)
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