斩 (zhǎn): meaning and stroke order
斩 (zhǎn) means to behead (as form of capital punishment), to chop.
斩
- Simplified
- 斩
- Traditional
- 斬
- Pinyin
- zhǎn
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Stroke order of 斩
斩
- zhǎn to behead (as form of capital punishment); to chop
- 8 strokes
- Traditional form: 斬
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Meaning of 斩
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zhǎn
Traditional 斬
- to behead (as form of capital punishment)
- to chop
Radical and structure
- 斩
- Radical 斤 (Kangxi radical 69) · 8 strokes · 车 on the left, 斤 on the right
Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.
斩 in our stories
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第二天，他得意地去砸袁守诚的招牌，袁守诚却冷冷地说：“你违抗天条，私改雨量，明天午时三刻，就要被斩了。”
dì-èr tiān tā déyì de qù zá Yuán Shǒuchéng de zhāopai Yuán Shǒuchéng què lěnglěng de shuō nǐ wéikàng tiāntiáo sī gǎi yǔliàng míngtiān wǔshí sān kè jiù yào bèi zhǎn le
The next day he went smugly to smash the fortune-teller's sign, but Yuan Shoucheng said coldly, "You have defied the laws of heaven and altered the rain on your own authority. Tomorrow at a quarter past the hour of the Horse, you will be beheaded."
From the story The Dragon King of the Jing River HSK 7–9 · Level 7
Stories using 斩
- The Dragon King of the Jing River HSK 7–9 · Level 7
Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).