niè
instrument of torture used in ancient times
Pictograph of shackles.
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Late Warring States (~250 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Unicode | U+3694 |
Shuowen | “,所以驚人也。从大,从。一曰大聲也。一曰讀若瓠。一曰俗語以盜不止為。,讀若籋。” |
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