"To behead" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 开刀 | kāi dāo | (of a surgeon) to perform an operation / (of a patient) to have an operation / to decapitate / to behead / to single out as a point of attack |   |
| 斩首 | zhǎn shǒu | to behead | |
| 斩杀 | zhǎn shā | to behead | |
| 殊死 | shū sǐ | to behead / capital punishment / desperate struggle / life-and-death | |
| 杀头 | shā tóu | to behead | |
| 砍头 | kǎn tóu | to decapitate / to behead | |
| 殊 |  shū | different / unique / special / very / (classical) to behead / to die / to cut off / to separate / to surpass | |
| 斩 | zhǎn | to behead (as form of capital punishment) / to chop | |
| 枭首 | xiāo shǒu | to behead | |
