斬 — beheading, kill

斬
Meaning
beheading, kill, murder
On reading
ザンzanサンsanセンsenゼンzen
Kun reading
きるkiru
Strokes
11
Learned in
Junior high school in Japan

斬 in names

When I turn a name into kanji, I use 斬 for the sound “zan” (ざん).

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Stroke order from KanjiVG © Ulrich Apel (CC BY-SA 3.0). Meanings and readings from KANJIDIC2 © EDRDG (CC BY-SA 4.0).