殺頭

杀头
shātóu
to behead

CEDICT

to behead; to decapitate

Wiktionary

砍頭。

重編國語辭典

Entry Composition

1 殺 shā
  1. to kill; to slay; to murder; to attack
  2. to weaken; to reduce
  3. (dialect) to smart
  4. (used after a verb) extremely
=2 頭 tóu
  1. head
  2. hair style
  3. the top
  4. end
  5. beginning or end
  6. a stub
  7. remnant
  8. chief
  9. boss
  10. side
  11. aspect
  12. first
  13. leading
  14. classifier for pigs or livestock

classifier: 個
=2 頭 tou suffix for nouns

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
梟首 xiāoshǒu to behead
殊死 shūsǐ
  1. to behead
  2. capital punishment
  3. desperate struggle
  4. life-and-death
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