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菜刀

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2-character word Measure word 把

What 菜刀 means

1. vegetable knife
2. kitchen knife
3. cleaver

The characters in 菜刀

• 菜càivegetable; greens; dish (of food); (of one's skills etc) weak; poor
• 刀dāoknife; blade; single-edged sword; cutlass; (slang; loanword) dollar…

Example sentences

• 这把菜刀不够锋利，所以我用了我的折叠刀来切肉。
  Zhè bǎ càidāo bù gòu fēnglì, suǒyǐ wǒ yòng le wǒ de zhédiédāo lái qiē ròu.
  The kitchen knife wasn't sharp enough to cut the meat, so I used my pocket knife.