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髡
Mandarin · pinyin kūn
Meanings
- scalping
- to make the head bald (as corporal punishment)
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- 髡
- kūn · to shave the head as a punishment; to prune
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Mandarin tones
1 · kun1
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
kwan1
Cantonese word readings for 髡. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.
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- (historical) to shave a male person's head as a punishment in ancient China
- (figuratively) Buddhist monk
- (figuratively) to trim the branches off a tree
- (Xiamen, Quanzhou and Taiwanese Hokkien) to shave; to peel; to scrape off; to pare
- (Xiamen Hokkien) to have the throat feel dry
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