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刀

dāo
HSK 3

“Knife” in Chinese is 刀 (dāo).

Other characters with the syllable dao: see all 13 →

Meaning

  • knife; blade; single-edged sword; cutlass
  • (slang) (loanword) dollar
  • classifier for sets of one hundred sheets (of paper)
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  • 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

Example

石头剪刀布！

Rock-paper-scissors, shoot!

From 剪刀 · Example sentence from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0).

Stroke Order

2 strokes

Words containing 刀

剪刀jiǎndāoscissorsHSK 5

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