the Qing order to all men to shave their heads but keep a queue, first ordered in 1646
trad. 剃髮令
Also written 剃髮令【tì fà lìng】
Characters in this word
3剃
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to shave
- Pinyin
- tì
- Strokes
- 9
- Frequency
- 11785 of 2500
发
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to send out, to show (one's feeling), to issue, to develop, to make a bundle of money, classifier for gunshots (rounds)
- Pinyin
- fā
- Traditional
- 發
- Strokes
- 5
- Frequency
- 2017 of 2500
令
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used in 脊令[ji2 ling2], used in 令狐[Ling2 hu2] (Taiwan pr. [ling4])
- Pinyin
- líng
- Strokes
- 5
- Frequency
- 1347 of 2500