斧鉞之誅 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 斧钺之诛 fǔyuèzhīzhū ㄈㄨˇ ㄩㄝˋ ㄓ ㄓㄨ to die by battle-ax (idiom) to be executed Character by character 斧(fǔ)hatchet 鉞(yuè)battle-ax 之(zhī)(possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的 de) 誅(zhū)put (a criminal) to death A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0