鞭墓戮尸

鞭墓戮尸 in English

biān mù lù shī: (idiom) To dig up a dead person and whip and mutilate the corpse. It describes extreme vengeance or an extreme act of revenge.

Character breakdown

鞭 biān whip or lash
墓 mù grave
戮 lù (bound form) to kill
尸屍 shī (bound form) corpse

How it used to be written

鞭

Bronze script 西周中期
Small seal script
See all 11 forms

墓

Small seal script
Clerical script 曹魏
See all 3 forms

戮

Bronze script 戰國晚期.晉
Clerical script 東漢
See all 8 forms

尸

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 16 forms

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

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