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斬
zhǎn
HSK 7freq #9472

Meanings

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zhǎn
  1. 1.to behead (as form of capital punishment)
  2. 2.to chop

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Wiktionary

  1. 1.to shave; to cut (hair)
  2. 2.to chop; to cut (meat)
  3. 3.to defraud; to rip off

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Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *ʔsoːn, *zoːn): phonetic 贊 (OC *ʔsaːns) + semantic 刀 (“knife”). Possibly cognate with 剪 (OC *ʔslenʔ, “to cut”) (Wang, 1982).

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Stroke order

Components

斩车斤

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Derived terms

劗田𭄛田劗肉𭄛肉劗跙𭄛跙劗髮𭄛发劗鬋𭄛鬋劗鹹肉𭄛咸肉大劗肉大𭄛肉

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Related words

斩新 variant of 崭新[zhǎn xīn]斩眼 to blink (literary)腰斩 to chop sb in half at the waist (capital punishment)斩首 to behead; to decapitate斩获 to kill or capture (in battle)斩杀 to behead斩断 to cut off白斩鸡 Cantonese poached chicken, known as "white cut chicken"斩杀线 (gaming) kill threshold; the critical health point cutoff at which an enemy can be finished off immediately斩钉截铁 (lit.) to chop the nail and slice the iron (idiom)斩草除根 to cut weeds and eliminate the roots (idiom); to destroy root and branch过关斩将 to surmount all difficulties (on the way to success) (idiom) (abbr. for 过五关斩六将[guò wǔ guān zhǎn liù jiàng])