Kanji Detail for 磔 - "dismember, crucify, crucifixion"

磔

Non-Jōyō Kanji

Meaning
磔 means "dismember, crucify, crucifixion."
1. Dismember - To tear apart; a punishment of tearing criminals to death.
2. Crucify - To display a corpse tied to a post.
3. Crucifixion - A punishment of binding criminals to a post and killing them with spears (Japanese usage).
Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:

KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

crucifixion

Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

to dismember, tear apart; downward stroke slanting right

CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

old term for the right-falling stroke in Chinese characters (e.g. the last stroke of 大[da4]), now called 捺[na4]; sound made by birds (onom.); (literary) to dismember (form of punishment); to spread

Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

to dismember, to tear apart

XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

To tear apart. In ancient punishment, dismembering the body is called 磔. | In calligraphy, the lower-right stroke is called 磔. Today called 捺 (downward-right stroke).
Onyomi

taku(たく)
Kunyomi

haritsuke

sa.ku(さく)
Strokes

15 strokes
Radical

石 (ishi・ishihen)
Related Keywords
dismember tear apart punishment tearing criminals death crucify display corpse tied post crucifixion binding killing