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Mythic Mandarin

刀子 (dāo zi): meaning and stroke order

刀子 (dāo zi) means knife, CL:把.

刀子

Simplified
刀子
Traditional
刀子 (same form)
Pinyin
dāo zi

Stroke order of 刀子

刀

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

Stroke by stroke

子

  • zǐ son; child
  • zi noun suffix, as in 椅子[yi3 zi5] "chair"
  • 3 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 刀子

  1. dāo zi
    • knife
    • CL:把[ba3]

Radicals of the characters

刀
Radical 刀 (Kangxi radical 18) · 2 strokes · built from 𠃌 and 丿
子
Radical 子 (Kangxi radical 39) · 3 strokes · built from 了 and 一

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.

刀子 in our stories

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  • 太阳越往西走，夸父离它越近，他甚至能感到阳光像刀子一样割着他的皮肤。

    tàiyáng yuè wǎng xī zǒu Kuāfù lí tā yuè jìn tā shènzhì néng gǎndào yángguāng xiàng dāozi yíyàng gē zhe tā de pífū

    The further west the sun went, the closer Kuafu came, until he could feel the sunlight cutting his skin like knives.

    From the story Kuafu chases the sun HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 刀子

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).