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Mythic Mandarin

镰刀 (lián dāo): meaning and stroke order

镰刀 (lián dāo) means sickle.

镰刀

Simplified
镰刀
Traditional
鐮刀
Pinyin
lián dāo

Stroke order of 镰刀

镰

  • lián old variant of 鐮|镰[lian2]
  • lián variant of 鐮|镰[lian2]
  • lián (bound form) sickle
  • 18 strokes
  • Traditional form: 䥥

Stroke by stroke

刀

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

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 镰刀

  1. lián dāo Traditional 鐮刀
    • sickle

Radicals of the characters

镰
Radical 钅 (Kangxi radical 167) in its simplified form · 18 strokes · 钅 on the left, 廉 on the right
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.

镰刀 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 镰刀

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).