Chinese symbol for “chop”
砍
kǎn
to chop; to cut down; to throw sth at sb
The closest CC-CEDICT match for chop is 砍 (kǎn), defined as: to chop; to cut down; to throw sth at sb.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “chop”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 切碎 | qiē suì | to chop |
| 斫 | zhuó | to chop; to hack |
| 斫 (斲) | zhuó | to chop; to carve wood |
| 削球 | xiāo qiú | (sport) to chop; to cut |
| 斩 (斬) | zhǎn | to behead (as form of capital punishment); to chop |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 砍.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 砍伐 | kǎn fá | to hew; to cut down |
| 砍头 (砍頭) | kǎn tóu | to decapitate; to behead |
| 砍杀 (砍殺) | kǎn shā | to attack with a bladed weapon |
| 砍死 | kǎn sǐ | to hack to death; to kill with an ax |
| 砍伤 (砍傷) | kǎn shāng | to wound with a blade or hatchet; to slash |
| 砍刀 | kǎn dāo | machete |
See also: Japanese symbol for “chop”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.