Unicode: U+4198

Pinyin: cuán yā

Definition

yā:* 用针刺穴位。 * 窄小而突起貌。 zā:* 同"拶"

acupuncture, narrow and protrude, (non-classical form of 拶) a torture device in old China consisting of several contracting wooden sticks, in between which the fingers of a suspect are placed and pressed to extort confessions

Structure

䆘 graph

Related substructures

Precursors

Small Seal Script
Standardized 221–206 BCE (Qin); developed earlier in Qin
The standardized seal script promulgated after Qin’s unification, based on earlier Qin seal forms and used as an empire-wide norm.Wikipedia ->
27_E63B

Last Modified: 2026-01-29 11:48 UTC