The story
- Chinese · borrowed from拶指
- English todayzanzhi
Borrowed from Chinese 拶指, literally "finger compressing".
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
zanzhi
Today it means: A form of torture, among the ancient Chinese, in which wooden sticks are placed around the victim's fingers and used to crush or break the fingers. Full definition →
Chinese 拶指