| 刀 | ||
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| 刀 (U+5200) "knife" | ||
| Pronunciations | ||
| Pinyin: | dāo | |
| Bopomofo: | ㄉㄠ | |
| Wade–Giles: | tao1 | |
| Cantonese Yale: | dou1 | |
| Jyutping: | dou1 | |
| Pe̍h-ōe-jī: | to | |
| Japanese Kana: | トウ tō (on'yomi) かたな katana (kun'yomi) | |
| Sino-Korean: | 도 do | |
| Names | ||
| Chinese name(s): | (刂) 立刀旁 lìdāopáng | |
| Japanese name(s): | 刀 katana (刂) 立刀/りっとう rittō | |
| Hangul: | 칼 kal | |
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Radical 18 or radical knife (刀部) meaning "knife" is one of 23 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of 2 strokes.
When appearing at the right side of a Chinese character, it usually transforms into 刂.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 377 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
刀 is also the 22nd indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China. Two associated indexing components, 刂 and ⺈, are affiliated to the principal indexing component 刀.
