BEHEAD    砍頭斬

EXECUTE by CUTTING off the HEAD.
DECAPITATECUT/CHOP/LOP SOMEONE'S HEAD OFFGUILLOTINE
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 ／
Hypernym
  • EXECUTE　KILL a PRISONER, OBEYING PUBLIC COMMAND. (anc: 13/0, child: 1)
  • KILL　VOLUNTARILY CAUSE TO DIE. (anc: 12/0, child: 5)
  • CAUSE TO　MOVE in SUCH a way that THEREFORE someone or something else CHANGES. (anc: 11/0, child: 18)
  • Encyclopedia of Comparative Iconography ( ROBERTS 1998) p. 118

    • Words (7 items)

    斬  zhǎn OC: tsreemʔ MC: ʈʂɣɛm 9 Attributions

    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 Attributions

    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 Attributions

    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 Attributions

    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 Attribution

    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
    殊死  shū sǐ OC: djo pliʔ MC: dʑi̯o si 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • vtoNput to death
    絕  jué OC: dzod MC: dziɛt 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • vtoNpassivehave (one's head) cut off