字の旅3,000 years in four forms
Oracle bone · ShangShang · c. 1200 BCE甲3085 合22474 子組
Oracle bone and bronze: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Small seal: Academia Sinica 小學堂, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
部首Radical · in Tools & Weapons
刀
刀 sword, blade
かたな katana
2 strokesRadical of 6 kanjiPart of 10
Your ink in 刀0% painted · 0 of 6 familiar
Origin · sourced
Pictogram象形
A knife. The original form was 𠚣, which can be found in a variant of 利, 𥝢 (in turn used on the top of the character 黎).
Source: Wiktionary, 刀 (rev. 93753295), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Imagine the gleaming edge of a samurai's katana! This character captures the curve and the sharpness of a blade. It represents the power to cut, divide, and decide. When you see it, think of the precision and the strength required to separate one thing into many.”
Where it sits in a kanji
Indicates swords, knives, the act of cutting, dividing, or the quality of being sharp and decisive
育つ
What it grows into
Built from 刀, with sourced origins
- 分partブン · わける
- 初first timeショ · はじめ
- 券ticketケン
𠔉sound + 刀
Contract. Ancient contracts were cut in half.
Phono-semantic compound · Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
一覧
Every kanji with 刀 as its radical
Most used first