馘

Han character

 * 1) cut off left ear
 * 2) tally dead enemy

Glyph origin
. This character largely displaced in the received corpus of ancient classics. See also.

Definitions

 * 1)  severed left ear of a slain enemy as trophy and tally for military merit
 * 2)  to cut off the left ear of an enemy
 * 3)  killed enemy; dead enemy
 * 1)  killed enemy; dead enemy

Pronunciation 2
The pronunciation was uncertain due to the sparsity of attestation, namely one sentence in the , which might have been affected by textual error. The following was based on those of, whose reading in the system would have been homophonic to that of  > Mandarin.

Definitions

 * 1) cheek; face
 * 1) cheek; face