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Kanji Detail for 檄 - "circular"
檄
- Meaning
檄 means "circular."
Circular - A proclamation; an official document issued by authorities.
- Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
written appeal; manifesto
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
call arms; urgency
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
dispatch; order
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
to order, to dispatch; urgency, a call to arms
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
Ancient official documents. Used wooden tablets twelve inches long. Used for summoning, proclamations, and reprimands. Sima Xiangru of Han wrote a "Proclamation to Ba and Shu"; Chen Lin of Later Han wrote a "Denunciation of Cao Cao"—both are examples. In emergencies, chicken feathers were attached to show urgency, called "feathered proclamations" (羽檄).
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