to put to death to imprison for life

Components
歹 meaning component

  Meaning component

dǎi

  

corpse, carcass

death

亟 sound component

  Sound component

  

urgently

Evolution

殛 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
殛 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

to put to death to imprison for life; to put to death

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5731st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Unicode

U+6B9B

Shuowen

“殛,殊也。从歺,亟聲。《虞書》曰:‘殛于羽山。’”


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