「打小人」
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| Pronunciation： | daa2 siu2 jan2 |
| Individual Character Meaning： |
打 to hit; dozen; to beat; to strike; to knock; to shoot; to compete with; to fight against; to go up against; to whisk; to inject; to load; to fill with; to tie; to knot; to "check off"; to get; to seize; to catch; to hunt; to work; to strive; to think; to concentrate; to count 小 small; primary school; elementary school; little; lesser; minor 人 human; human being; person; people; personality; everybody; (some) people; others; somebody; body of a person |
| Part of Speech： | verb |
| Explanation： |
a ritual offered to those who wish to do harm to an enemy which involves beating a cut-out representation of the person, i.e. a form of sympathetic magic, particularly popular at the Spring solstice; literally: to beat the little person
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