斩
zhǎn HSK7

chop

斩 斬 zhǎn
to chop
to chop; to cut through; to sever; to hack with a blade
to behead
to behead; to execute by decapitation, especially as a form of capital punishment in historical contexts
to cut off
(literary) to cut off; to sever connections or a line of succession; to bring to an end
surname
a Chinese surname

Cross-References

Synonym

Frequency
Character
Written text
2,463rd most common 19.9 per million
Movie subtitles
2,820th most common 4.68 per million appears in 3% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
2.56 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
15.5 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Traditional
斬
Strokes
8
Unicode
U+65A9

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)