刀
Meanings
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- 1.knife; blade; single-edged sword; cutlass (CL:把[bǎ])
- 2.(slang) (loanword) dollar
- 3.classifier for sets of one hundred sheets (of paper)
- 4.classifier for knife cuts or stabs
- 5.(Internet slang) to bargain; to ask for a small discount (esp. on second-hand marketplaces)
- 1.surname Dao
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Wiktionary
- 1.knife; blade (Classifier: 把 m c g h j mb md w x; 張／张 c h; 叢／丛 mn; 支 mn mn-t)
- 2.single-edged sword; cutlass
- 3.Classifier for sets of one hundred sheets of paper.
- 4.Classifier for incisions with a knife, blade, single-edged sword, etc.
- 5.to bargain; to negotiate on price
- 6.a surname (only common among Tai people)
- 7.dollar
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Etymology
Pictogram (象形) – a knife. The original form was 𠚣, which can be found in a variant of 利, 𥝢 (in turn used on the top of the character 黎). Unclear. Here are several proposals: * Schuessler (2007) considers this to be an area word or a word widely borrowed from Chinese into other languages; compare Proto-Karen *ʔdɔ (“knife”), Jingpho [script needed] (n³¹-do³¹, “short knife”), Proto-Vietic *-taːw (“knife”), Bulo Stieng taaw; * Stephen Baron posits Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-ta-w, with a sparsely attested suffix *-w retained in Sinitic yet lost in Tibeto-Burman, yielding Proto-Tibeto-Burman *s-ta (“knife; axe; sword”); compare Tibetan སྟ་རེ (sta re, “axe; hatchet”), Burmese ဓား (dha:, “knife; sword”), Proto-Loloish *ta² (“knife”) (STEDT); * Starostin derives it from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tā̆w ~ *dā̆w, comparing it to Tibetan སྟེའུ (ste'u, “carpenter's axe, adze”) and Jingpho nhtu (“sword”).
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Stroke order
Components
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Example sentences
少一把刀。
There is a knife missing.
你有刀吗？
Do you have a knife?
把刀放下！
Drop the knife!
我找不到刀。
I can't find the knife.
放下那把刀。
Drop the knife.
放下那把刀。
Drop that knife.
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