刀
katana; sword; saber; knife
2 strokes. Taught in grade 2. Newspaper frequency rank 1794.
Readings
- トウ (on reading): 刀剣 (とうけん) sword; 日本刀 (にほんとう) Japanese sword (usu. single-edged and curved)
- かたな (kun reading): 刀 (かたな) sword (esp. Japanese single-edged); 小刀 (こがたな) (small) knife
- そり (kun reading): 剃刀 (かみそり) razor; オッカムの剃刀 (オッカムのかみそり) Occam's razor
- Read as a whole word: 太刀 (たち) long sword (as opposed to the shorter katana); 太刀打ち (たちうち) crossing swords; 助太刀 (すけだち) assistance (in a fight)
Components
- 刀 radical sword
Kanji containing 刀
- 分 part
- 初 first time
- 解 unravel
- 切 cut
- 辺 environs
- 券 ticket
- 契 pledge
- 拐 kidnap
- 召 seduce
- 刃 blade
- 梁 weir
- 刄 blade
- 仞 fathom
- 叨 truly
- 屶 used in proper names
- 朷 type of tree
- 刧 threat
- 枴 cane
- 茘 scallion
- 挈 carry by hand
- 釖 knife
- 剪 clip
- 粱 high quality rice
- 齊 alike
- 劈 break
- 劒 sword
- 辧 manage
- 齧 gnaw
Words using 刀
- 刀剣 (とうけん) sword
- 日本刀 (にほんとう) Japanese sword (usu. single-edged and curved)
- 宝刀 (ほうとう) treasured sword
- 単刀直入 (たんとうちょくにゅう) straight to the point
- 抜刀 (ばっとう) drawing a sword
- 刀 (かたな) sword (esp. Japanese single-edged)
- 小刀 (こがたな) (small) knife
- 打刀 (うちがたな) katana (sword worn on the hip edge up by samurai)
- 刀鍛冶 (かたなかじ) swordsmith
- 手刀 (てがたな) hand used like a sword in striking
- 太刀 (たち) long sword (as opposed to the shorter katana)
- 太刀打ち (たちうち) crossing swords
- 助太刀 (すけだち) assistance (in a fight)
- 薙刀 (なぎなた) naginata
- 太刀魚 (たちうお) largehead hairtail (Trichiurus lepturus)
- 剃刀 (かみそり) razor
- オッカムの剃刀 (オッカムのかみそり) Occam's razor
- 安全剃刀 (あんぜんかみそり) safety razor
- 剃刀研ぎ (かみそりとぎ) one who sharpens razors
- 剃刀砥 (かみそりど) razor strop
- 刀自 (とじ) lady
- 刀伊 (とい) Jurchen pirate tribe who invaded Tsushima in 1019
- 刺刀 (さすが) dagger
- 生大刀 (いくたち) sword brimming over with life force
- 母刀自 (おもとじ) mother
178 words in all.