菜刀
coi3 dou1cài dāo
English
- vegetable knife
- Chinese style kitchen knife; usually shaped like a cleaver, but often thinner and used for preparing all sorts of food (not only vegetables); literally: vegetable knife
- kitchen knife
- cleaver
量詞 — Classifiers
粵語 — Cantonese
- 處理食物嘅廚刀(唔係淨係處理蔬菜)(量詞:把)
Examples
佢嬲到想用把菜刀斬人。
She is so angry that she wants to pick up a kitchen knife and hurt someone.
可唔可以攞把菜刀俾我切嘢?
Can you take the cleaver to me for chopping something?
这把菜刀不够锋利,所以我用了我的折叠刀来切肉。
The kitchen knife wasn't sharp enough to cut the meat, so I used my pocket knife.
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Sources: cc-cedict, rime-cantonese, words.hk