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is composed of (the picture of a pestle thrusting into a mortar)and (lack, the picture of a man opening his mouth). Ancient Chinese smeared their mouth with animal's blood when taking oath, in order to show the faith. represents thrusting, if we want to get the blood from the animal, we need to stab its skin, so which is composed of and , means an ancient Chinese oath.

Vocabulary of 歃

  • 歃血 (to smear one's lips with the blood of a sacrifice as a means of pledging allegiance)

Classification

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