Dictionary › 斩首

斩首

zhǎn shǒu

2-character word Traditional 斬首

What 斩首 means

1. to behead; to decapitate

The characters in 斩首

• 斩zhǎnto behead (as form of capital punishment); to chop
• 首shǒuhead; chief; first (occasion, thing etc)

Words starting with 斩首

• 斩首行动zhǎn shǒu xíng dòng(military) decapitation strike

Go deeper

• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read zhǎn shǒu correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.