English

1. knife
2. surname Dao
3. knife; blade; single-edged sword; cutlass (CL:把[ba3])
4. knife
5. for actions with blades and knives
6. old coin
7. (slang) (loanword) dollar
8. measure
9. classifier for sets of one hundred sheets (of paper)
10. classifier for knife cuts or stabs
11. (Internet slang) to bargain; to ask for a small discount (esp. on second-hand marketplaces)
12. (Internet slang) to knife (sb) (often used hyperbolically, as in 想刀他[xiang3 dao1 ta1] "I could kill him!")

粵語

1. 用嚟切嘢嘅工具，扁平而且非常鋒利（量詞：把）
2. 畀刀揮擊嘅量詞

As a component in · 283

• 分fan1
• 切cit3
• 絕zyut6
• 留lau4
• 齊cai4
• 初co1
• 那naa5
• 貿mau6
• 券hyun3
• 剪zin2
• 劉lau4
• 劈pik1
• 召ziu6
• 叨tou1
• 刃jan6
• 㓞kit3
• 剺lei4
• 忉dou1
• 芀tiu4
• 鳭dou1
• 㓛gung1
• 㓜jau3
• 㓪long5
• 㔃zyut6

Variants

• 刂semantic variant

Words containing 刀

• 開刀hoi1 dou1

  (of a surgeon) to perform an operation

• 操刀cou1 dou1

  to hold a knife

• 剪刀zin2 dou1

  scissors

• 軍刀gwan1 dou1

  military knife

• 手刀sau2 dou1

  hand formed into a flat shape, as for a karate chop

• 關刀gwaan1 dou1

  a halberd, a big sword with long stick as a holder

• 刺刀ci3 dou1

  bayonet

• 刀背dou1 bui3

  back of the knife

• 菜刀coi3 dou1

  vegetable knife

• 刀片dou1 pin2

  blade

• 刀鋒dou1 fung1

  cutting edge or point of a knife, sword or tool

• 鐮刀lim4 dou1

  sickle

• 刀仔dou1 zai2

  a small knife

• 磨刀mo4 dou1

  to hone (a knife)

• 刀叉dou1 caa1

  knife and fork

• 餐刀caan1 dou1

  table knife

• 朴刀po1 dou1

  sword with a curved blade and a long hilt, wielded with both hands

• 剃刀tai3 dou1

  razor

• 神經刀san4 ging1 dou1

  a crazy

• 武士刀mou5 si6 dou1

  katana

• 刀子dou1 zi2

  knife

• 一刀切jat1 dou1 cit3

  lit. to cut all at one stroke (idiom); to impose uniformity

• 馬刀maa5 dou1

  saber

• 美刀mei5 dou1

  (slang) US dollar