腰斩 yāozhǎn execute at the waist Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 腰斩 腰斬 yāozhǎn execute at the waist To chop someone in half at the waist, referring to an ancient form of capital punishment cut in half To cut or chop something in half physically, or to reduce a quantity or margin by half terminate To cancel a project, serial publication, or plan mid-course; to cut short Frequency Written text 0.544 per million Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
腰斩 腰斬 yāozhǎn execute at the waist To chop someone in half at the waist, referring to an ancient form of capital punishment cut in half To cut or chop something in half physically, or to reduce a quantity or margin by half terminate To cancel a project, serial publication, or plan mid-course; to cut short Frequency Written text 0.544 per million Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
