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聝

guó
verb

Meanings

  1. 1 to cut off the left ear of a slain enemy (as a war tally) (classical)
  2. 2 the severed left ear (classical)

Examples

HSK 7-9
古代战争中，聝指割取敌人的左耳。
Gǔdài zhànzhēng zhōng, guó zhǐ gēqǔ dírén de zuǒ ěr.
In ancient warfare this character meant cutting off a slain foe's left ear to count the kill.

Tips

history
聝 is not used in modern Chinese; it is a classical military word - soldiers cut off slain enemies' left ears to tally kills. It is also written 馘. It pairs the ear radical 耳 with the phonetic 或, the phonetic also in 国 and 域.
register
Classical military vocabulary only; never used in modern speech or writing.

Components

radical
耳 ěr
ear
耳 is the ear radical, a pictograph of an ear. It supplies the meaning literally: this character is about a severed ear taken in battle.
phonetic
或 huò
or; perhaps
或 supplies the sound, drifted from huò to guó. It is the same phonetic core inside 国 and 域.

No stroke data for 聝; the glyph shown is your device font, so component strokes can't be highlighted.

Stroke Order

聝 guó