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Kanji Detail for 斬 - "cut, slay, new"
斬
- Meaning
斬 means "cut, slay, new."
Cut - To slice with a blade.
Slay - To kill with a weapon.
New - Fresh; novel (modern usage).
- Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
beheading; kill; murder
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
cut, chop, sever; behead
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
to behead (as form of capital punishment); to chop
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
to chop, to cut, to sever; to behead
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
To chop. Any swift downward strike with a blade is called 斬. Such as 斬草除根 (to cut the weeds and eliminate the roots). In the old legal system, decapitation was called 斬. Such as 斬立決 (immediate execution), 斬監候 (execution after imprisonment). | To sever, terminate. From "Mencius": "The influence of a gentleman lasts five generations before it is cut off." | An emphatic particle meaning "completely." Such as 斬新 (brand new), 斬齊 (completely even).
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