刀

Derived characters

 * Appendix:Chinese radical/刀

Glyph origin
– a knife.

Etymology 1
Unclear. Here are several proposals:
 * considers this to be an area word or a word widely borrowed from Chinese into other languages; compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬;
 * Stephen Baron posits, with a sparsely attested suffix *-w retained in Sinitic yet lost in Tibeto-Burman, yielding 🇨🇬; compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 (STEDT);
 * derives it from, comparing it to 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Definitions

 * 1) knife; blade
 * 2) single-edged sword; cutlass
 * 3)  to bargain; to negotiate on price
 * 1)  to bargain; to negotiate on price
 * 1)  to bargain; to negotiate on price
 * 1)  to bargain; to negotiate on price

Synonyms




Descendants
Others:

Etymology 2
From.

Definitions

 * 1)  dollar

Etymology 1
From. First cited to the  of 720. From.

Compound of +. This na element is spelled in monolingual Japanese sources as, but there is no historical attestation for any na reading for this character. A comparison with 🇨🇬 and modern 🇨🇬 suggests a origin for this latter element.

Noun

 * 1)   a single-edged sword, such as a katana
 * 2)  a small single-edged blade
 * 1)  a small single-edged blade
 * 1)  a small single-edged blade
 * 1)  a small single-edged blade

Etymology 2
→ →

Ultimately from. Compare modern 🇨🇬.

First cited as an independent noun to a text from 1895. Cited in compounds since at least the 800s.

Affix

 * 1)  sword, knife, blade

Noun

 * 1)  a sword, a katana
 * 2)  a scalpel, such as that used by a surgeon
 * 3)  a kind of bronze or copper money in ancient China, shaped a bit like a sword
 * 1)  a kind of bronze or copper money in ancient China, shaped a bit like a sword
 * 1)  a kind of bronze or copper money in ancient China, shaped a bit like a sword

Etymology
From.

Particle

 * 1) as well; too; either, or (negative) neither, nor