Read Edit View history 腰斩 yāozhǎn execution Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 腰斩 (腰斬) yāozhǎn execution verb to chop someone in half at the waist as a form of capital punishment halve verb to reduce something (such as a price, value, or quantity) by a dramatic margin, typically by half terminate verb to cut short or cancel something prematurely, such as a creative project, television show, or book series Frequency Written text 0.544 per million Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
腰斩 (腰斬) yāozhǎn execution verb to chop someone in half at the waist as a form of capital punishment halve verb to reduce something (such as a price, value, or quantity) by a dramatic margin, typically by half terminate verb to cut short or cancel something prematurely, such as a creative project, television show, or book series Frequency Written text 0.544 per million Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)