斩 斬
斩斬 in English
- to behead (as form of capital punishment) / to chop
How it used to be written
These are the forms of 斬, the traditional character: 斩 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 西周中期 -
Clerical script 曹魏 - See all 7 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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他用斧头重重的斩了一下，那棵树就倒了下来。
The tree was felled with one hard blow of his ax.
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我斩钉截铁地拒绝了。
I flatly refused.