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放血

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Pīnyīn
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(TCM) to practice bloodletting / (medicine) to perform phlebotomy / (coll.) to make sb bleed; to inflict grievous wounds / (fig.) to cough up a large amount of money / (fig.) to reduce prices drastically

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Mandarin
Pīnyīn
Unihan Definition
standalone and in compounds
Jyutping
Cantonese
Variant
Four corner
Cangjie
splitcomponent searchstroke orderdetailspronouncebaikeskritter
 *放* | 放* | *放
8画
put, release, free, liberate
0824.0
YSOK
component searchstroke orderdetailspronouncebaikeskritter
 *血* | 血* | *血
6画
blood; Kangxi radical 143
2710.0
HBT

Word decomposition:

SimplifiedEnglish Definition
(TCM) to practice bloodletting / (medicine) to perform phlebotomy / (coll.) to make sb bleed; to inflict grievous wounds / (fig.) to cough up a large amount of money / (fig.) to reduce prices drastically
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *放* | 放* | *放
to put / to place / to release / to free / to let go / to let out / to set off (fireworks)
 
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *血* | 血* | *血
see
 
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *血* | 血* | *血
blood / colloquial pr. [xie3] / CL: ,