Character Details
| knife | Ascii: — | w137 | |||||||||
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| Hanyu | Pinyin | Pronunciation | Tone | Components/Primitives | Wiktionary | Alt Sounds | |||||
| 刀 | dāo | dowe | 1 | 刀 (knife) → knife | 刀 link | ||||||
| Picture | Character Story | ||||||||||
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Steal a bunch of wheat from a field by cutting it down with your saber and make some profit. | ||||||||||
| Notes | |||||||||||
| [HSK 1] - Cutting, division. Often marks verbs. Examples: 到, 别 | |||||||||||
| Examples | |||||||||||
| - My pencil is blunt, could you lend me a knife to sharpen it? | - --Research Pending-- | ||||||||||
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| Single Character Decomposition | |||||||||||
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| Radical | Name | Label | Domain | Component Persona | Example Characters | ||||||
| 18 - — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||
| Elements | Semantic Element | Phonetic Element | Note | ||||||||
| 刀 (knife) → knife | 刀 (semantic) | — | pure semantic | ||||||||