刀 (dāo): meaning and stroke order

刀 (dāo) means knife; blade; single-edged sword; cutlass (CL:把), (slang) (loanword) dollar.

刀

Simplified: 刀
Traditional: 刀 (same form)
Pinyin: dāo

Stroke order of 刀

刀

Dāo surname Dao
dāo knife; blade; single-edged sword; cutlass (CL:把[ba3]); (slang) (loanword) dollar
2 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 刀

dāo
- knife; blade; single-edged sword; cutlass (CL:把[ba3])
- (slang) (loanword) dollar
- classifier for sets of one hundred sheets (of paper)
- classifier for knife cuts or stabs
- (Internet slang) to bargain; to ask for a small discount (esp. on second-hand marketplaces)
Dāo
- surname Dao

Radical and structure

刀: Radical 刀 (Kangxi radical 18) · 2 strokes · built from 𠃌 and 丿

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

Words with 刀

刀子 dāo zi knife; CL:把[ba3]
刀刃 dāo rèn knife blade; crucial point
镰刀 lián dāo sickle
心如刀割 xīn rú dāo gē to feel as if having one's heart cut out (idiom); to be torn with grief

刀 in our stories

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负责查案的官员仔细检查了伤口：伤口又宽又浅，边缘不整齐，不像刀砍的，倒像是镰刀割的。

fùzé chá'àn de guānyuán zǐxì jiǎnchá le shāngkǒu shāngkǒu yòu kuān yòu qiǎn biānyuán bù zhěngqí bú xiàng dāo kǎn de dào xiàng shì liándāo gē de

The official in charge examined the wounds carefully: they were wide and shallow with ragged edges—not like cuts from a knife, but rather like slashes from a sickle.

From the story The flies that solved the case HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 刀

The flies that solved the case HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).