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Kanji Detail for 袒 - "bare shoulder, assist, fray"
袒
- Meaning
袒 means "bare shoulder, assist, fray."
Bare shoulder - To remove a sleeve and expose the shoulder.
Assist - To lend support; to help.
Fray - To become worn.
- Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
baring the shoulder; strip to waist
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
strip; lay bare; bared; naked
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
to bare
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
to strip, to bare
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
Exposed and naked. Such as 袒裼裸裎 (stripped bare). Also exposing the left arm. Anciently done in funeral rites. | Protecting someone is called 袒. Partial protection is called 偏袒 (showing favoritism). Based on Zhou Bo's statement "Those for the Lü clan bare your right arm; those for the Liu clan bare your left arm." Appears in the "Book of Han."
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