刀

Translingual

Stroke order

Alternative forms

• 刂 (when used as a right Radical)

Etymology

Pictogram (象形)

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

Characters in the same phonetic series (刀) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
刀	*taːw
忉	*taːw
魛	*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

Han character

1. knife
2. a type of Chinese sabre in the shape of a large knife
3. a type of ancient coin
4. measure

Derived terms

• 罰
• Index:Chinese radical/刀

References

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

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Cantonese

Hanzi

刀 (Jyutping dou1, Yale dou1)

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Goguryeo

Noun

刀 (tar)

1. pheasant

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Japanese

Kanji

刀

(Second grade kyōiku kanji)

Readings

• On (unclassified): とう (tō) (from historical たう (tau)), と (to)
• Kun: かたな (katana)

Compounds

• 小刀
• 大刀
• 木刀 (ぼくとう, bokutō): wooden sword
• 短刀 (たんとう, tantō): short sword
• 日本刀 (にほんとう, nihontō): katana, Japanese sword, long sword with single-edge
• 刀工 (とうこう, tōkō): swordsmith
• 薙刀 (なぎなた, naginata): a halberd, (like a yari or long spear)

Pronunciation

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /katana/

Etymology

Compound of .

Noun

1. a single bladed sword; katana

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Korean

Hanja

刀 • (do)

• Eumhun:
  • Sound (hangeul): 도 (revised: do, McCune–Reischauer: to)
  • Name (hangeul): 칼
    

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Mandarin

Hanzi

刀 (Pinyin dāo (dao1), fèn (fen4), Wade-Giles tao¹, fen⁴)

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Compounds

• 刀把儿
• 刀背, 刀背儿
• 刀笔
• 刀币
• 刀兵
• 刀叉
• 刀法
• 刀锋
• 刀斧手
• 刀耕火种
• 刀光剑影
• 刀具
• 刀锯
• 刀口
• 刀螂
• 刀马旦

• 刀片, 刀片儿
• 刀枪
• 刀鞘
• 刀刃, 刀刃儿
• 刀山火海
• 刀伤
• 刀削面
• 刀子
• 刀俎
• 刀柄
• 操刀
• 刺刀
• 大刀
• 军刀
• 大砍刀
• 短弯刀
• 剪刀

Phrase

• 刀子嘴，豆腐心

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Middle Chinese

Han character

刀 (*dɑu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 刀 (đao, dao, đeo)

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