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斩首
zhǎn​shǒu

behead

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
斩首 (斬首) zhǎn​shǒu
behead verb
to behead; to decapitate

恐怖分子威胁要将人质斩首。

kǒng​bù fèn​zǐ wēi​xié yào jiāng rén​zhì zhǎn​shǒu.

Terrorists are threatening to behead the hostages.

Frequency

Movie subtitles
1.64 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
1.60 per million

Sources

Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)