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Mythic Mandarin

刀刃 (dāo rèn): meaning and stroke order

刀刃 (dāo rèn) means knife blade, crucial point.

刀刃

Simplified
刀刃
Traditional
刀刃 (same form)
Pinyin
dāo rèn

Stroke order of 刀刃

刀

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

Stroke by stroke

刃

  • rèn edge of blade
  • 3 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 刀刃

  1. dāo rèn
    • knife blade
    • crucial point

Radicals of the characters

刀
Radical 刀 (Kangxi radical 18) · 2 strokes · built from 𠃌 and 丿
刃
Radical 刀 (Kangxi radical 18) · 3 strokes · built from 刀 and 丶

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.

刀刃 in our stories

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  • 中午，七八十把镰刀在广场上排成一排，刀刃朝上，在太阳下闪闪发光。村民们围在四周，谁也不明白官员想做什么。

    zhōngwǔ qībāshí bǎ liándāo zài guǎngchǎng shàng pái chéng yì pái dāorèn cháo shàng zài tàiyáng xià shǎnshǎnfāguāng cūnmín men wéi zài sìzhōu shéi yě bù míngbai guānyuán xiǎng zuò shénme

    At noon seventy or eighty sickles lay in a row on the square, blades up, glittering in the sun. The villagers gathered round, none of them understanding what the official intended.

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

Stories using 刀刃

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).