斬 — Chinese character
斬
zhǎn
to chop, to cut, to sever; to behead
- Pinyin
- zhǎn
- Radical
- 69 ⽄ (Axe)
- Strokes
- 11
- Components
- 車 斤
- Formation
- pictophonetic — axe; meaning component 斤; sound component 車
- Simplified
- 斩
- Japanese
- 斬 as a kanji
斬 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Mencius 2 · Zhuangzi 5
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.