谪
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Definitions
- 1. to relegate a high official to a minor post in an outlying region (punishment in imperial China)
- 2. to banish or exile
- 3. (of immortals) to banish from Heaven
- 4. to censure
- 5. to blame
Words Containing 谪
to criticize
a genius (literally, an immortal who has been banished from heaven to live on earth), an epithet for exceptional individuals such as the Tang poet Li Bai 李白[lǐ bái]
(of officials in imperial China) to live in banishment
in exile as penal servitude
to banish from the court; to relegate