斩
zhǎn
cut, chop, sever; behead
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 斤
- HSK
- 6
- Tone
- 3
Traditional form: 斬
Stroke order
Example sentences
我斩钉截铁地拒绝了。
Wǒ zhǎn dīng jié tiě de jù jué le
I flatly refused.
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Words containing 斩
- 斩钉截铁zhǎn dīng jié tiě 3–1–2–3lit. to chop the nail and slice the iron (idiom); fig. resolute and decisive; unhesitating; categorical
- 斩zhǎn 3to behead (as form of capital punishment); to chop
- 斩草除根zhǎn cǎo chú gēn 3–3–2–1 → 2–3–2–1to cut weeds and eliminate the roots (idiom); to destroy root and branch; to eliminate completely