斬
zhǎn HSK7

chop

斩 (斬) zhǎn
chop verb
to cut, slice, or hack through something with a heavy blade

他用力挥动大刀，将乱草全部斩断。

tā yòng​lì huī​dòng dà​dāo, jiāng luàn​cǎo quán​bù zhǎn duàn.

He swung the broadsword with force and cut through all the overgrown grass.

behead expression
to execute by decapitation as a form of capital punishment

在古代，犯下重罪的人常被斩首示众。

zài gǔ​dài, fàn​xià zhòng​zuì de rén cháng bèi zhǎn​shǒu shì​zhòng.

In ancient times, those who committed serious crimes were often beheaded in public.

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 3.0
Level 7
Simplified
斩
Strokes
11
Unicode
U+65AC

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