BEHEAD  砍頭斬

EXECUTE by CUTTING off the HEAD.
DECAPITATECUT/CHOP/LOP SOMEONE'S HEAD OFFGUILLOTINE
Hypernym
  • EXECUTEKILL a PRISONER, OBEYING PUBLIC COMMAND.
    • KILLVOLUNTARILY CAUSE TO DIE.
      • CAUSE TOMOVE in SUCH a way that THEREFORE someone or something else CHANGES.
        • MOVECHANGE PLACE OR SITUATION....
Old Chinese Criteria
[[COMMON/RARE]]

[GENERAL/SPECIFIC]

[IDIOM/WORD]

[REFLEXIVE/TRANSITIVE]

1. The standard word for beheading others is zhǎn 斬.

[GENERAL]

2. Lù 戮 refers to beheading in addition to severe mutilation of the body and often involves beheading of the corpse.

[SPECIFIC]

3. Wěn 刎 "cut one's throat" is not strictly a case of beheading, and is most current as a mode of suicide.

[REFLEXIVE]

4. Xiāo shǒu 梟首 is beheading followed by public exposure on a wooden pillar.

[IDIOM], [SPECIFIC]

Modern Chinese Criteria
斬首

砍頭

梟首

殺頭

開刀

砍腦袋

rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／

Words

斬  zhǎn OC: tsreemʔ MC: ʈʂɣɛm 9 AttributionsWD

The standard word for beheading others is zhǎn 斬.

    Word relations
  • Assoc: 斷/CUT Duàn 斷 is to cut a part off a whole.

    Syntactic words
  • vtoNcut off the head of
  • vtoNiussivehave N beheaded, cause N to be beheadedCH
  • vtoNpassivebe beheaded
刎  wěn OC: mɯnʔ MC: mi̯un 7 AttributionsWD

Wěn 刎 "cut one's throat" is not strictly a case of beheading, and is most current as a mode of suicide.

    Syntactic words
  • vtoNbehead (oneself), cut one's own throat 自刎
  • vtoNreflexive.自cut (one's own) throat [=MSC]
戮  lù OC: ɡ-ruɡ MC: luk 6 AttributionsWD

Lù 戮 refers to beheading in addition to severe mutilation of the body and often involves beheading of the corpse.

    Syntactic words
  • nabactbeheading
  • vtoNpunish by mutilation and then cut the head off the dead body; behead and then mutilate the body and display it to the public as humiliation
  • vtoNpassivebe punished by mutilation and subsequent beheading
大辟  dà bì OC: daads peɡ MC: dɑi piɛk 5 AttributionsWD

Dà pì 大辟 is the bureaucratic legal term for capital punishment.

    Syntactic words
  • NPabactcapital punishment, beheading; beheadings
  • NPadNdeserving of capital punishment 大辟之罪
梟首  xiāo shǒu OC: keew qhljuʔ MC: keu ɕɨu 1 AttributionWD

Xiāo shǒu 梟首 is beheading followed by public exposure on a wooden pillar.

    Syntactic words
  • vtoNpassivebehead and hang up the head on a wooden pillar to exhibit it to the public
絕  jué OC: dzod MC: dziɛt 0 AttributionsWD
    Syntactic words
  • vtoNpassivehave (one's head) cut off
殊死  shū sǐ OC: djo pliʔ MC: dʑi̯o si 0 AttributionsWD
    Syntactic words
  • vtoNput to death

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