U+5250 "剐" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+5250 "剐" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character primarily used in modern Mandarin, pronounced "guǎ" in Pinyin. It most commonly refers to a historical method of execution known as "death by a thousand cuts" or lingchi, where the victim's body was sliced into small pieces, and figuratively it can mean to cut or pare something thinly, such as meat, or to suffer a prolonged, painful ordeal. In its literal sense, it retains the radical for "knife" (刂), reflecting its associations with cutting and dismemberment.