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Meaning of 枷

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Pinyin: jiā
English Definition: cangue (wooden collar like stocks used to restrain and punish criminals in China)
Chinese Definition:
①旧时一种套在脖子上的刑具:枷锁(旧时的两种刑具,喻束缚)。枷号(古代刑法,将犯人上枷,写明罪状示众)。
Total strokes: 9; Radical:
Pictophonetic: indicates the sound; (wood) conveys the meaning.
Character Formation:
  • Left to right
    • [ ] tree; wood, lumber; wooden
    • [ jiā ] to add to, to increase, to augment
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Example Words
枷锁 jiā suǒ stocks and chain; in fetters
连枷 lián jiā flail
枷带锁抓 jiā dài suǒ zhuā in stocks; in fetter for punishment
枷板 jiā bǎn cangue; fig. difficult situation
枷销 jiā xiāo yoke; chains; shackles; fetters
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Example Sentences
1
Atlas: Who breaks my chains of torment?
2
Carry Cangue Bridge: where traitor was put on cangue.
3
I nod mole to have half month, had been cangue dropped red now redly hole does?
4
I have seen the freest among you wear their freedom as a yoke and a handcuff.
5
沿
Prison authorities offered no food to the convicts, and "prisoners" in handcuffs and wooden cangues begged in the streets.