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Traditional form:

Pinyin (reading):

zhé

Definitions:

  • old term for the right-falling stroke in Chinese characters (e.g. the last stroke of 大 (dà)), now called 捺 (nà)
  • sound made by birds (onom.)
  • (literary) to dismember (form of punishment)
  • to spread

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