lǎo hǔ dèng

老虎凳 (lǎo hǔ dèng) is a Chinese word meaning “tiger bench (torture method in which the victim sits with legs extended horizontally along a bench, upper legs held down with straps while bricks are inserted under the feet, forcing the knee joint to bend in reverse)”.

Meanings

  1. 1tiger bench (torture method in which the victim sits with legs extended horizontally along a bench, upper legs held down with straps while bricks are inserted under the feet, forcing the knee joint to bend in reverse)

Characters in 老虎凳

老lǎo · prefix used before the surname of a person or a numeral indicating the order of birth of the children in a family or to indicate affection or familiarity虎hǔ · tiger凳dèng · bench

Related words

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