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Meaning: beheading
Kunyomi: くびき.る
Onyomi: ケイ
Composition: 刂
Radical: 刀
Meaning: knife, sword
自剄 （ジケイ） committing suicide by slitting one's throat
首切る （くびきる） to behead, to decapitate, to fire, to dismiss