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刀

刀

刀 U+5200, 刀
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5200
← 凿
[U+51FF] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 刁 →
[U+5201]
See also: ㄉ

Translingual

Stroke order

Alternative forms

  • 刂 (when used as a right Radical)

Han character

刀 (radical 18 刀+0, 2 strokes, cangjie input 尸竹 (SH), four-corner 17220)

  1. Kangxi radical #18, ⼑ ‎(“knife”).

Descendants

Derived characters

  • Index:Chinese radical/刀
  • 罰

References

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

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 刀

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 刀
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Bamboo and silk script Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (刀) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
刀 *taːw
忉 *taːw
鱽 *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

Pictogram (象形)

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 刀
Mandarin Beijing /tɑu⁵⁵/
Harbin /tau⁴⁴/
Tianjin /tɑu²¹/
Jinan /tɔ²¹³/
Qingdao /tɔ²¹³/
Zhengzhou /tau²⁴/
Xi'an /tau²¹/
Xining /tɔ⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /tɔ⁴⁴/
Lanzhou /tɔ³¹/
Ürümqi /tɔ⁴⁴/
Wuhan /tau⁵⁵/
Chengdu /tau⁵⁵/
Guiyang /tao⁵⁵/
Kunming /tɔ⁴⁴/
Nanjing /tɔo³¹/
Hefei /tɔ²¹/
Jin Taiyuan /tau¹¹/
Pingyao /tɔ¹³/
Hohhot /tɔ³¹/
Wu Shanghai /tɔ⁵³/
Suzhou /tæ⁵⁵/
Hangzhou /tɔ³³/
Wenzhou /tɜ³³/
Hui Shexian /tɔ³¹/
Tunxi /tə¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /tau³³/
Xiangtan /taɯ³³/
Gan Nanchang /tɑu⁴²/
Hakka Meixian /tau⁴⁴/
Taoyuan /to²⁴/
Cantonese Guangzhou /tou⁵³/
Nanning /tu⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /tou⁵⁵/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /to⁵⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /to⁴⁴/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /tau⁵⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /to³³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /ʔdo²³/
Rime
Character 刀
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 端 (5)
Final (韻) 豪 (89)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 都勞切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /tɑu/
Pan
Wuyun		 /tɑu/
Shao
Rongfen		 /tɑu/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /taw/
Li
Rong		 /tɑu/
Wang
Li		 /tɑu/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /tɑu/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 dāo
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 刀
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 dāo
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ taw ›
Old
Chinese		 /*C.tˤaw/
English knife

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 刀
Reading # 1/1
No. 2108
Phonetic
component		 刀
Rime
group		 宵
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese		 /*taːw/

Definitions

刀

  1. knife; blade   (Classifier: 把 m c)
  2. single-edged sword; cutlass
  3. (slang) dollar (loanword)
  4. Classifier for sets of one hundred sheets of paper.

Compounds

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (刀):

Non-Sino-Xenic:

Japanese

Kanji

刀

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

Compounds

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
刀
かたな
Grade: 2
kun'yomi

Compound of 片 ‎(kata, “one side”) +‎ 刃 ‎(na, “edge”).[1][2]

Pronunciation

Noun

刀 ‎(hiragana かたな, romaji katana)

  1. (weaponry) a single-edged sword
  2. (weaponry) more specifically, a katana
  3. a small single-edged blade
Synonyms
  • (small blade): 切れ物 (きれもの, ​kiremono)
Coordinate terms
  • 脇差 (わきざし, ​wakizashi) traditional Japanese shortsword (30cm to 60cm)
  • 短刀 (たんとう, ​tantō) traditional Japanese knife or dagger (30cm and shorter)
  • 大小 (だいしょう, ​daishō): “big and small”: the katana and wakizashi as a set
Related terms
  • (sword, two-edged): 剣 (つるぎ, ​tsurugi)
Derived terms
Idioms

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
刀
とう
Grade: 2
on'yomi

From Middle Chinese 刀 ‎(taw). Compare modern Mandarin 刀 ‎(dāo).

Pronunciation

Noun

刀 ‎(hiragana とう, romaji tō, historical hiragana たう)

  1. a sword, a katana
  2. a scalpel, such as that used by a surgeon
  3. a kind of bronze or copper money in ancient China, shaped a bit like a sword
Synonyms
  • (sword in general): 刀剣 (とうけん, ​tōken)
  • (scalpel): メス (​mesu)
  • (Chinese money): 刀銭, 刀泉 (とうせん, ​tōsen)
Derived terms

References

  1. ↑ 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
  2. ↑ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9

Korean

Hanja

刀 • ‎(do)
Eumhun:

  • Sound (hangeul): 도 (revised: do, McCune-Reischauer: to)
  • Name (hangeul): 칼()
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Vietnamese

Han character

刀 (đao, dao, đeo)

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