刀

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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
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Bamboo and silk script Large seal script Small seal script
刀-oracle.svg 刀-bronze.svg 刀-silk.svg 刀-bigseal.svg 刀-seal.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).

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
  2. a small single-edged blade
Synonyms[edit]
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Derived terms[edit]
Derived terms
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
Synonyms[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
Derived terms

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 4-385-13905-9

Korean[edit]

Hanja[edit]

刀 • (do)

  • Eumhun:
    • Sound (hangeul): 도 (revised: do, McCune-Reischauer: to)
    • Name (hangeul): 칼
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Vietnamese[edit]

Han character[edit]

刀 (đao, dao, đeo)

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References[edit]

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