Chinese Character Wiki

禡

mà

a sacrifice at the beginning of a military campaign

Evolution

禡 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
Definitions

祃 (禡) 

mà

a sacrifice at the beginning of a military campaign or on the 2nd and 16th day of the lunar month; (arch.) religious ritual on setting out for war

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

8319th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Simplified

祃

Unicode

U+79A1

Shuowen

“禡，師行所止，恐有慢其神，下而祀之曰禡。从示，馬聲。《周禮》曰：‘禡於所征之地。’”


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