刀
dāo HSK3

knife

刀 dāo
knife noun
knife; blade; single-edged sword; any tool used for cutting, slicing, or carving

你把刀架在他脖子上。

nǐ bǎ dāo jià zài tā bó​zi shang.

You held a knife to his throat.

始终保持手指完全远离刀。

shǐ​zhōng bǎo​chí shǒu​zhǐ wán​quán yuǎn​lí dāo.

Always keep your fingers completely clear of the knife.

[cut/stab] measure word
unit of measurement for the number of times one has been cut or stabbed

他在背后捅了我一刀。

tā zài bèi​hòu tǒng le wǒ yī dāo.

He stabbed me in the back.

knife-shaped object
something shaped like a knife, such as ice skates, a mason's trowel, or ancient knife-shaped coins
hundred sheets
unit of measurement for paper, typically consisting of one hundred sheets
dollar
(slang) dollar; phonetic loanword for "dollar"
Dao
a Chinese surname
radical
the 18th Kangxi radical

Cross-References

Classifier

Has erhua variant

Same as

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,067th most common 141.0 per million
Movie subtitles
985th most common 106.7 per million appears in 31% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
81.7 per million appears in 20% of films
Written text
89.5 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 4
HSK 3.0
Level 3
Strokes
2
Unicode
U+5200

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)