梟首

枭首
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。殺人取頭懸掛在木桿上示眾。

重編國語辭典

斬首將頭顱掛在竿上示眾

維基詞典

Entry Composition

1 梟 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

梟首示眾 xiāoshǒushìzhòng to behead sb and display the head in public

Related entries

斬 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

斬殺 zhǎnshā to behead
殊死 shūsǐ
  1. to behead
  2. capital punishment
  3. desperate struggle
  4. life-and-death
殺頭 shātóu to behead
開刀 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