Drop the knife!
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刀
dāo
HSK 3.0 · 3HSK 2.0 · 4
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dāo · dou1 (Jyutping)
- knife; blade; single-edged sword; cutlass (CL:把[ba3])
- (slang) (loanword) dollar
- classifier for sets of one hundred sheets (of paper)
- classifier for knife cuts or stabs
- (Internet slang) to bargain; to ask for a small discount (esp. on second-hand marketplaces)
- (Internet slang) to knife (sb) (often used hyperbolically, as in 想刀他[xiang3 dao1 ta1] "I could kill him!")
- surname Dao
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Character breakdown
刀
- Meaning
- knife; old coin; measure
- Radical
- 刀
- Strokes
- 2
- Components
- ⿹？丿
- Cangjie
- SH
- Four-corner
- 1722.0
Unihan 17.0.0 · Unicode License V3. Make Me a Hanzi · LGPL 3+. Interactive stroke order is available in the study tools.
Example sentences
Do you have a knife?
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