| 受刑 | shòu xíng | beaten / tortured / executed |  |
| 贞德 | Zhēn dé | Jeanne d'Arc (1412-1431), French heroine and liberator, executed as a witch by the Burgundians and English / also called Jehanne Darc, the Maid or Orleans, Joan of Arc or St Joan | |
| 伏法 | fú fǎ | to be executed | |
| 闻一多 | Wén Yī duō | Wen Yiduo (1899-1946), poet and patriotic fighter, executed by Guomindang in Kunming | |
| 瞿秋白 | Qū Qiū bái | Qu Qiubai (1899-1935), politician, Soviet expert of the Chinese communists at time of Soviet influence, publisher and Russian translator, captured and executed by Guomindang at the time of the Long March | |
| 张志新 | Zhāng Zhì xīn | Zhang Zhixin (1930-1975) female revolutionary and martyr, who followed the true Marxist-Leninist line as a party member, and was arrested in 1969, then executed in 1975 after opposing the counterrevolutionary party-usurping conspiracies of Lin Biao and the Gang of Four, and only rehabilitated posthumously in 1979 | |
| 布托 | Bù tuō | Bhutto (name) / Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (1928-1979), president of Pakistan 1971-1979 executed by General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq / Benazzir Bhutto (1953-2007), twice president of Pakistan 1988-1990 and 1993-1996 | |
| 安德海 | An1 Dé hǎi | An Dehai (-1869), the Qing equivalent of Rasputin, all-powerful court eunuch with the dowager empress Cixi 慈禧太后[Ci2 xi3 tai4 hou4], executed in 1869 by her rival Empress Mother Empress Dowager Ci'an 慈安皇太后 | |
| 不避斧钺 | bù bì fǔ yuè | not trying to avoid the battle-ax (idiom) / not afraid of dying in combat / not afraid of being executed | |
| 斧钺之诛 | fǔ yuè zhī zhū | to die by battle-ax (idiom) / to be executed | |
| 伏诛 | fú zhū | to be executed | |
| 刑人 | xíng rén | criminal to be executed / to execute a criminal | |
| 加拉罕 | Jiā lā hǎn | Leo Karakhan (1889-1937), Soviet ambassador to China 1921-26, executed in Stalin's 1937 purge | |
| 受刑人 | shòu xíng rén | person being executed / victim of corporal punishment / person serving a sentence | |
| 布哈林 | Bù hā lín | Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin (1888-1938), Soviet revolutionary theorist, executed after a show trial in 1937 | |
| 戊戌六君子 | Wù xū Liù jūn zǐ | the Six Gentlemen Martyrs of the failed reform movement of 1898, executed in its aftermath, namely: Tan Sitong 譚嗣同|谭嗣同[Tan2 Si4 tong2], Lin Xu 林旭[Lin2 Xu4], Yang Shenxiu 楊深秀|杨深秀[Yang2 Shen1 xiu4], Liu Guangdi 劉光第|刘光第[Liu2 Guang1 di4], Kang Guangren 康廣仁|康广仁[Kang1 Guang3 ren2] and Yang Rui 楊銳|杨锐[Yang2 Rui4] | |
| 米夫 | Mǐ fū | Pavel Aleksandrovich Mif (1901-1938), Ukrainian Soviet expert on Chinese affairs, secretly executed in Stalin's purges | |
| 圣女贞德 | Shèng nu:3 Zhēn dé | Joan of Arc (1412-1431), French heroine and liberator, executed as a witch by the Burgundians and English | |
| 贝·布托 | | Benazir Bhutto (1953-2007), Pakistani politician, daughter of executed former prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and herself prime minister 1993-1996, murdered by Al Qaeda | |
| 邵飄萍 | shào piāo píng | Shao Piaoping (1884-1926), pioneer of journalism and founder of newspaper Beijing Press 京報|京报, executed in 1926 by warlord Zhang Zuolin 張作霖|张作霖 | |
| 韩复矩 | Hán Fù jǔ | Han Fuju (1890-1938), Nationalist Kuomintang (KMT) army general and governor of Shandong, executed by Chiang Kai-shek 蔣介石|蒋介石[Jiang3 Jie4 shi2] after he abandoned Ji'nan to the Japanese | |
| 张成泽 | zhāng chéng zé | Jang Song-taek (1946-2013), brother-in-law of Kim Jong-il 金正日[Jin1 Zheng4 ri4], uncle and mentor of Kim Jong-un 金正恩[Jin1 Zheng4 en1], in 2013 accused of being a counter-revolutionary and executed | |
| 国家执行项目 | | nationally executed project | |
| 贝・布托 | Bèi · Bù tuō | Benazir Bhutto (1953-2007), Pakistani politician, daughter of executed former prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and herself prime minister 1993-1996, murdered by Al Qaeda | |
| 贝娜齐尔・布托 | Bèi nà qí ěr · Bù tuō | Benazir Bhutto (1953-2007), Pakistani politician, daughter of executed former prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and herself prime minister 1993-1996, murdered by Al Qaeda | |
| 邵飘萍 | Shào Piāo píng | Shao Piaoping (1884-1926), pioneer of journalism and founder of newspaper Beijing Press 京報|京报, executed in 1926 by warlord Zhang Zuolin 張作霖|张作霖 | |
| 韩复榘 | Hán Fù jǔ | Han Fuju (1890-1938), Nationalist Kuomintang (KMT) army general and governor of Shandong, executed by Chiang Kai-shek 蔣介石|蒋介石[Jiang3 Jie4shi2] after he abandoned Jinan to the Japanese | |
| 瞿秋白 | Qú Qiū bái | Qu Qiubai (1899-1935), politician, Soviet expert of the Chinese communists at time of Soviet influence, publisher and Russian translator, captured and executed by Guomindang at the time of the Long March | |
