Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- zhǎn
English
- cut, chop, sever
- to behead (as form of capital punishment)
- behead
- to chop
- to chop; to forcefully cleave with a wide-bodied blade as opposed to back and forth slicing
- to buy Chinese style roast pork or other meats
- (in football/soccer) to cross; to make a crossing pass or kick
粵語
- 用啲大把、闊身嘅刀,大大力咁由上而下分割一啲嘢;而唔係前後拉扯(切)
- 買叉燒、燒肉等熟肉
- 足球術語,指斬波
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Variants
Words containing 斬
- 斬獲zaam2 wok6
to kill or capture (in battle)
- 腰斬jiu1 zaam2
to chop sb in half at the waist (capital punishment)
- 斬首zaam2 sau2
to behead; to decapitate
- 斬頭zaam2 tau2
beheading
- 斬件zaam2 gin2
verb; cut or chop it into pieces
- 斬犯zaam2 faan2
a criminal that is to be beheaded
- 斬料zaam2 liu2
slang for buying ready to eat cooked meat from outside and bring it back home as an extra dish for dinner
- 斬倉zaam2 cong1
noun; cut loss, margin cut; liquidation; forced liquidation
- 斬手指zaam2 sau2 zi2
to give up gambling; literally: to chop off one's fingers [colloquial]
- 斬纜zaam2 laam2
to make a clean break from a relationship; to sever ties; to cut off the ropes of a steamboat from a ferry; to take drastic measures to halt investment activities in order to minimise the loss of money
- 斬中zaam2 zung1
(soccer) crossing kick toward the midfield
- 斬新zaam2 san1
variant of 嶄新|崭新[zhan3 xin1]
- 問斬man6 zaam2
to behead
- 斬波zaam2 bo1
soccer jargon;to cross, crossing pass or crossing kick - to kick hard on the ball's bottom, sometimes adding side spin, making it flies to the sky with a parabolic path, usually used in a long pass, free kick or corner kick
- 試斬si3 zaam2
Tameshigiri
- 追斬zeoi1 zaam2
to chase after a person and attack him with a knife
- 白斬雞baak6 zaam2 gai1
Cantonese poached chicken, known as "white cut chicken"
- 牙斬斬ngaa4 zaam2 zaam2
(slang) (for ability to speak, with a negative connotation) boastful; eloquent; persuasive; sharp-tongued
- 牙斬斬ngaa4 zaam2 zaam2
(slang) (for ability to speak, with a negative connotation) boastful; eloquent; persuasive; sharp-tongued
- 斬斷zaam2 dyun6
to cut off
- 斬殺zaam2 saat3
to behead
- 過關斬將gwo3 gwaan1 zaam2 zoeng3
to surmount all difficulties (on the way to success) (idiom) (abbr. for 過五關斬六將|过五关斩六将[guo4 wu3 guan1 zhan3 liu4 jiang4])
- 斬眼zaam2 ngaan5
to blink (literary)
- 斬晒zaam2 saai3