鞭屍

简 鞭尸 · 繁 鞭屍
Cantonese · source Jyutpingbin1 si1

Meanings

  1. to whip the corpse; to humiliate the dead person who is hated by others; to ridicule members of an online forum who have left; to ridicule those whose prediction or rumours turns out to be untrue by digging out their old posts to repost on an online forum
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Same syllable, six tones

Characters whose customary Unihan reading (kCantonese) is this syllable in each tone, chosen as in the tone atlas (2013 standard level, then the number of CC-CEDICT words they form), with CC-Canto 2017's meaning for that reading; a dash means no catalogue character has that reading. Checked syllables (-p, -t, -k) normally carry tones 1, 3 and 6. Character readings, not word readings; no frequency implied.

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CC-CEDICT, the Mandarin–English dictionary, lists the same written form:

  • 鞭屍 biān shī CC-CEDICT · Mandarinto flog a corpse; (fig.) to bring up sb's past failures or embarrassing moments long after the event has passed

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CC-Canto includes this pinyin reference: bian1 shi1. It does not establish a Mandarin word with the same meaning.

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bin1 si1

Cantonese word readings for 鞭屍. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

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verb

  1. (verb-object) to punish posthumously by whipping
  2. (Internet slang) to mock or laugh at someone's previous actions, even after a very long time

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Mandarin comparison: CC-CEDICT 2026-10-13, CC BY-SA 4.0. Source reading differences and six-tone sets: computed by zimai from Unihan 17.0.0 (Unicode License V3).

Exact source record & identity鞭屍 鞭尸 [bian1 shi1] {bin1 si1} /to whip the corpse; to humiliate the dead person who is hated by others; to ridicule members of an online forum who have left; to ridicule those whose prediction or rumours turns out to be untrue by digging out their old posts to repost on an online forum/

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