枭首

梟首
xiāoshǒu
to behead

CEDICT

  1. (literary or historical) to decapitate and display the head in public as a deterrent
  2. to decapitate and display the head in public as a deterrent

Wiktionary

古代的酷刑。杀人取头悬挂在木杆上示众。

重編國語辭典

斩首将头颅挂在竿上示众

維基詞典

Entry Composition

1 枭 xiāo
  1. owl
  2. valiant
  3. trafficker
2 首 shǒu
  1. head
  2. chief
  3. first (occasion, thing etc)
  4. classifier for poems, songs etc

Containing this entry

枭首示众 xiāoshǒushìzhòng to behead sb and display the head in public

Related entries

斩 zhǎn
  1. to behead (as form of capital punishment)
  2. to chop
他用斧頭重重的斬了一下，那棵樹就倒了下來。

The tree was felled with one hard blow of his ax.

Source: Tatoeba

斩杀 zhǎnshā to behead
殊死 shūsǐ
  1. to behead
  2. capital punishment
  3. desperate struggle
  4. life-and-death
杀头 shātóu to behead
开刀 kāidāo
  1. (of a surgeon) to perform an operation
  2. (of a patient) to have an operation
  3. to decapitate
  4. to behead
  5. to single out as a point of attack