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Kanji Detail for 黥 - "tattoo"
黥
- Meaning
黥 means "tattoo."
Tattoo - An ancient punishment of marking criminals' faces with ink.
- Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
tatooing
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
to tattoo; to brand the face of criminals
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
surname Qing
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
to tattoo; to brand the face of criminals
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
The ancient tattooing punishment is also called 黥. Like today's branding.
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