zhǎn
chop
Phonosemantic compound. 车 represents the sound and 斤 represents the meaning. Simplified from 斬.
Evolution

Bronze script
Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernMost common words with 斩
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
to chop | ||
to behead | ||
to cut off | ||
to eliminate completely | ||
unhesitating |
Component uses
Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[ts]ramʔ | tsreamX | zhǎn | cut off |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 2.9793% of movies
2820th most common character in movies
2463rd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+65A9 |
Sources
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