刀

HSK 4#1285 by frequencyradical 刀

Dāo["n","q"]

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

Measure word: 把

Examples

少一把刀。

There is a knife missing.

你有刀吗？

Do you have a knife?

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.