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刀

dāo

HSK 4 Character Measure word 把

What 刀 means

1. knife; blade; single-edged sword; cutlass
2. slangloanworddollar
3. classifier for sets of one hundred sheets (of paper)
4. classifier for knife cuts or stabs
5. net slangto bargain; to ask for a small discount (esp. on second-hand marketplaces)
6. net slangto knife (sb) (often used hyperbolically, as in {想刀他|xiǎng dāo tā} "I could kill him!")

Other readings

刀 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• Dāosurname Dao

Example sentences

• 少一把刀。
  There is a knife missing.
• 把刀放下！
  Drop the knife!
• 你有刀吗？
  Do you have a knife?
• 这刀不锋利。
  The knife is not sharp.
• 他是刀子嘴。
  He has a sharp tongue.
• 我找不到刀。
  I can't find the knife.

Words starting with 刀

• 刀子dāo ziknife
• 刀叉dāo chāknife and fork
• 刀疤dāo bāscar from a knife wound
• 刀片dāo piànblade; razor blade; tool bit
• 刀刃dāo rènknife blade; crucial point
• 刀枪dāo qiāngsword and spear; weapons
• 刀具dāo jùcutting tool
• 刀锋dāo fēngcutting edge or point of a knife, sword or tool
• 刀口dāo kǒuthe edge of a knife; cut; incision
• 刀光剑影dāo guāng jiàn yǐnglit. flash of knives and swords (idiom); fig. intense conflict
• 刀塔Dāo tǎDefense of the Ancients (DotA), video game
• 刀客dāo kèswordsman; swordswoman
• 刀工dāo gōngknife work (food preparation)
• 刀库dāo kùtool magazine (computer-aided manufacturing)
• 刀乐dāo lè(loanword) dollar
• 刀笔dāo bǐwriting up of official or judicial documents; pettifoggery
• 刀背dāo bèiback of the knife
• 刀身dāo shēnblade (of a knife or sword)
• 刀类dāo lèiknives; cutlery
• 刀鱼dāo yútapertail anchovy (Coilia ectenes); various species of cutlassfish; saury
• 刀削面dāo xiāo miànknife-shaved noodles (pared or shaved into strips), a Shanxi specialty
• 刀马旦dāo mǎ dànfemale warrior role in Chinese opera
• 刀光血影dāo guāng xuè yǐngmassacre
• 刀山火海dāo shān huǒ hǎilit. mountains of daggers and seas of flames; fig. extreme danger (idiom)

Words containing 刀

• 剪刀jiǎn dāoscissors
• 菜刀cài dāovegetable knife; kitchen knife; cleaver
• 小刀xiǎo dāoknife
• 开刀kāi dāo(of a surgeon) to perform an operation; (of a patient) to have an operation; to decapitate
• 大刀dà dāobroadsword; large knife; machete
• 刺刀cì dāobayonet
• 镰刀lián dāosickle
• 尖刀jiān dāodagger
• 军刀jūn dāomilitary knife; saber
• 磨刀mó dāoto hone (a knife)
• 一刀切yī dāo qiēlit. to cut all at one stroke (idiom); to impose uniformity…
• 剃须刀tì xū dāoshaver; razor
• 水果刀shuǐ guǒ dāoparing knife; fruit knife
• 砍刀kǎn dāomachete
• 剃刀tì dāorazor
• 屠刀tú dāobutcher's knife; abattoir hatchet
• 大刀阔斧dà dāo kuò fǔbold and decisive
• 螺丝刀luó sī dāoscrewdriver
• 单刀直入dān dāo zhí rù(idiom) to get straight to the point
• 一刀两断yī dāo liǎng duàn(idiom) to make a clean break with; to have nothing more to do with
• 主刀zhǔ dāoto act as the chief surgeon; chief surgeon
• 冰刀bīng dāoice skates; ice skate blades
• 切刀qiē dāocutter; knife
• 利刀lì dāosharp knife; knife (weapon)

Characters that look like 刀

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 力lìpower; force; strength
• 刃rènedge of blade

Sounds the same

Read dāo, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 叨garrulous
• 氘deuterium 2H; heavy hydrogen, isotope of hydrogen having 1 neutron in its nucleus, so…
• 忉grieved
• 舠kayak
• 鱽Coilia ectenes
• 刂Kangxi radical 18 (刀