MUTILATE    肉刑刖

CUT OFF PARTS of the BODY of a HUMAN OR ANIMAL.
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Old Chinese Criteria
1. The commonest form of mutilating punishment was yuè 刖 "amputation of the foot". 2. Yì 劓 refers to the mutilation of the nose. 3. Bìn 臏 refers to the mutilation of the knee-cap which gave its name to the famous warfare specialist Sūn Bìn 孫臏. 4. Zhé xiě 折脅 refers to the crushing of ribs. NB: The other words in this group are mercifully rare.
Modern Chinese Criteria
肉刑 is the general modern word for punishment by mutilation. 刖 refers to cutting off the feet of a culprit. 凌遲 refers to dismembering. 剮 refers to cutting the flesh of a culprit's bones. 車裂 refers to tearing up and dismembering a culprit by pulling him apart by the use of vehicles. 支解 refers explicitly to dismemberment. 磔 zhé refers to public dismemberment. 刵 refers to cutting off a culprit's ears. 劓 refers to cutting off a culprit's nose. 髕 refers to cutting of a culprit's knee-cap. 拶指 refers to the crushing of a culprit's fingers between sticks. 腰斬 refers to cutting at the waist. 鼎鑊 refers to cooking an offender in a cauldron. 五馬分尸 五馬分屍 五牛分尸 五牛分屍 rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／
Hyponym
  • CASTRATE　MUTILATE so as to CUT off MALE GENITALS. (anc: 14/0, child: 0)
Hypernym
  • CUT　DISPLACE a SHARP INSTRUMENT INTO a THING. (anc: 12/0, child: 9)
  • DISPLACE　CAUSE to MOVE. (anc: 11/0, child: 28)
  • MOVE　CHANGE PLACE OR SITUATION. (anc: 10/0, child: 21)
  • Histoire des moeurs ( POIRIER 1991) p. 1.483

    • Words (16 items)

    刖  yuè OC: ŋod MC: ŋi̯ɐt 19 Attributions

    The commonest form of mutilating punishment was yuè 刖 "amputation of the foot".

      Syntactic words
    • nabactamputation of the foot
    • nabactmutilation of the foot; amputaton of the foot
    • npassivea person with an amputated foot
    • vadNdeserving amputation of a foot 刖罪
    • viactcarry out mutilating punishments
    • vistativehave one foot amputated
    • vtoNcut off (feet); amputate the foot of (a culprit)
    • vtoNpassivehave one's foot amputated
    • vtoNreflexive.自mutilate (oneself) by cutting off a foot
    劓  yì OC: ŋrids MC: ŋi 8 Attributions

    Yì 劓 refers to the mutilation of the nose.

      Syntactic words
    • nabactamputation of the nose
    • nabactmutilation
    • vtoNamputate N's nose
    • vtoNmiddle voicehave one's nose amputated
    • vtoNreflexive.自mutilate (one's own) nose
    刑  xíng OC: ɡeeŋ MC: ɦeŋ 4 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • vtoNreflexive.自punish (oneself) through some kind of physical mutilation
    刖跪  yuè guì OC: ŋod ɡrolʔ MC: ŋi̯ɐt giɛ 4 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • NPperson whose feet are mutilated and who therefore walks on his knees
    兀者  wù zhě OC: ŋɡluud kljaʔ MC: ŋuot tɕɣɛ 2 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • NP=Nprcripple Npr
    腳  jiǎo OC: kaɡ MC: ki̯ɐk 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • vtoNpassivehave one's knee-cap removed
    臏  bìn OC: binʔ MC: bin 1 Attribution

    Bìn 臏 refers to the mutilation of the knee-cap which gave its name to the famous warfare specialist Sūn Bìn 孫臏.

      Syntactic words
    • vtoNcut the knee-cap cut off one's leg 　XUN: 臏腳
    • vtoNmiddle voicehave (one's leg) mutilated with respect to the knee-cap
    刑餘  xíng yú OC: ɡeeŋ la MC: ɦeŋ ji̯ɤ 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • VPadNpassivemutilated
    鑽  zuān OC: tsoon MC: tsʷɑn 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • nabactmutilation by cutting off the knee-cap
    介  jiè OC: kreeds MC: kɣɛi 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • v[adN]person who has been punished by amputation of the foot
    • vihave an amputated foot, be mutilated ZHUANG: 介也 "be mutilated"
    • vtoNamputate a foot
    折脅  zhé xié OC: kljed qhlob MC: tɕiɛt hi̯ɐp 1 Attribution

    Zhé xiě 折脅 refers to the crushing of ribs.

      Syntactic words
    • vtoNpassivehave one's ribs crushed as punishment
    腓  féi OC: bul MC: bɨi 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • nabactmutilation of the knee-cap, amputation of the knee-cap
    • vi0there is mutilation
    斬左趾  zhǎn zuǒ zhǐ OC: tsreemʔ skaalʔ kljɯʔ MC: ʈʂɣɛm tsɑ tɕɨ 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • vtoNamputate left foot
    具五刑  jù wǔ xíng OC: ɡos ŋaaʔ ɡeeŋ MC: gi̯o ŋuo̝ ɦeŋ 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • vtoNapply all the five mutilating punishments (branding, curring off the nose, cutting off the feet, castration, decapitation)
    刵  èr OC: mljɯs MC: ȵɨ 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • nabactamputation of the ear NB: the example in SHU is controversial.
    剕  Click here to add pinyin OC:  MC: 0 Attributions

    fèi

      Syntactic words
    • nabactmutilation of the foot or knee