刀

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See also: ㄉ and 力
刀 U+5200, 刀
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5200
← 凿
[U+51FF]		 CJK Unified Ideographs 刁 →
[U+5201]

Translingual[edit]

Stroke order
刀-order.gif

Alternative forms[edit]

  • 刂 (when used as a right Radical)

Han character[edit]

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Radical 18 刀

刀 (radical 18 刀+0, 2 strokes, cangjie input 尸竹 (SH), four-corner 17220)

  1. Kangxi radical #18, ⼑.

Descendants[edit]

Derived characters[edit]

References[edit]

  • KangXi: page 135, character 24
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1845
  • Dae Jaweon: page 304, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 319, character 12
  • Unihan data for U+5200

Chinese[edit]

simp. and trad.
 刀

Glyph origin[edit]

Historical forms of the character 刀
Shang Western Zhou Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Chu Slip and silk script Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
刀-bronze-shang.svg 刀-oracle.svg 刀-bronze.svg 刀-silk.svg 刀-seal.svg 刀-bigseal.svg
Characters in the same phonetic series (刀) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
刀 *taːw
忉 *taːw
鱽 *taːw
舠 *taːw
朷 *taːw, *moːɡ
叨 *tuːw, *l̥ʰaːw
倒 *taːwʔ, *taːws
到 *taːws
菿 *taːws, *rtaːwɢ
鞀 *deːw
鳭 *rteːw, *teːw
灱 *hreːw
菬 *sdew, *tjewʔ
超 *tʰew
怊 *tʰew, *tʰjew
欩 *tʰew
召 *dews, *djews
昭 *tjew
招 *tjew
鉊 *tjew
沼 *tjewʔ
照 *tjews
詔 *tjews
炤 *tjews
弨 *tʰjew, *tʰjewʔ
眧 *tʰjewʔ
韶 *djew
佋 *djew, *djewʔ
軺 *djew, *lew
玿 *djew
柖 *djew
紹 *djewʔ
袑 *djewʔ
綤 *djewʔ
邵 *djews
劭 *djews
卲 *djews
刁 *teːw
芀 *teːw, *deːw
貂 *teːw
蛁 *teːw
迢 *deːw
苕 *deːw
髫 *deːw
岧 *deːw

Pictogram (象形): A knife

Pronunciation[edit]

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 刀
Mandarin Beijing /tɑu⁵⁵/
Harbin /tau⁴⁴/
Tianjin /tɑu²¹/
Jinan /tɔ²¹³/
Qingdao /tɔ²¹³/
Zhengzhou /tau²⁴/
Xi'an /tau²¹/
Xining /tɔ⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /tɔ⁴⁴/
Lanzhou /tɔ³¹/
Ürümqi /tɔ⁴⁴/
Wuhan /tau⁵⁵/
Chengdu /tau⁵⁵/
Guiyang /tao⁵⁵/
Kunming /tɔ⁴⁴/
Nanjing /tɔo³¹/
Hefei /tɔ²¹/
Jin Taiyuan /tau¹¹/
Pingyao /tɔ¹³/
Hohhot /tɔ³¹/
Wu Shanghai /tɔ⁵³/
Suzhou /tæ⁵⁵/
Hangzhou /tɔ³³/
Wenzhou /tɜ³³/
Hui Shexian /tɔ³¹/
Tunxi /tə¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /tau³³/
Xiangtan /taɯ³³/
Gan Nanchang /tɑu⁴²/
Hakka Meixian /tau⁴⁴/
Taoyuan /to²⁴/
Cantonese Guangzhou /tou⁵³/
Nanning /tu⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /tou⁵⁵/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /to⁵⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /to⁴⁴/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /tau⁵⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /to³³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /ʔdo²³/
Rime
Character 刀
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 端 (5)
Final (韻) 豪 (89)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 都勞切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /tɑu/
Pan
Wuyun		 /tɑu/
Shao
Rongfen		 /tɑu/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /taw/
Li
Rong		 /tɑu/
Wang
Li		 /tɑu/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /tɑu/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 dāo
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 刀
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 dāo
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ taw ›
Old
Chinese		 /*C.tˤaw/
English knife

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 刀
Reading # 1/1
No. 2108
Phonetic
component		 刀
Rime
group		 宵
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese		 /*taːw/

Definitions[edit]

刀

  1. knife; blade (Classifier: 把 m c)
  2. single-edged sword; cutlass
  3. (loanword, colloquial, slang) dollar
  4. Classifier for sets of one hundred sheets of paper.

Compounds[edit]

Derived terms from 刀

Descendants[edit]

Sino-Xenic (刀):
  • Japanese: 刀 (とう) (tō)
  • Korean: 도 (刀, do)
  • Vietnamese: đao (刀)

Others:

Japanese[edit]

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Kanji[edit]

刀

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings[edit]

Compounds[edit]

Compounds with irregular readings of 刀

Etymology 1[edit]

Kanji in this term
刀
かたな
Grade: 2
kun’yomi

Compound of 片 (kata, “one side”) +‎ 刃 (na, “edge”).[1][2]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

刀 (hiragana かたな, rōmaji katana)

  1. (weaponry) a single-edged sword, such as a katana
    • 1999 September 23, “鎧よろい武む者しゃゾンビ [Armored Musha Zombie]”, in Vol.5 (in Japanese), Konami:
      怨 (おん)念 (ねん)により蘇 (よみがえ)った武 (む)者 (しゃ)。闇 (やみ)雲 (くも)にふりまわすカタナに注 (ちゅう)意 (い)。
      Onnen ni yori yomigaetta musha. Yamikumo ni furimawasu katana ni chūi.
      A musha reanimated by deep hatred. Watch out when he brandishes his katana.
  2. a small single-edged blade
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Idioms[edit]
Idioms

Etymology 2[edit]

Kanji in this term
刀
とう
Grade: 2
on’yomi

From Middle Chinese 刀 (taw). Compare modern Mandarin 刀 (dāo).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

刀 (hiragana とう, rōmaji tō, historical hiragana たう)

  1. a sword, a katana
  2. a scalpel, such as that used by a surgeon
  3. a kind of bronze or copper money in ancient China, shaped a bit like a sword
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Terms beginning with 刀:

Terms ending with 刀:

References[edit]

  1. ^ 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
  2. ^ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean[edit]

Hanja[edit]

刀 • (do)

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Vietnamese[edit]

Han character[edit]

刀 (đao, dao, đeo)

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References[edit]

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