刂
dāo

knife

刂 is a component form of 刀, which depicts a knife.

Character Evolution

Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Shang ~1100 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Shang ~1100 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Shang ~1100 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Regular Modern

Component uses

Meaning (25 of 64 verified)

前划刻刚创判刘副剑剧刺刑罚刊剩剂割削剥刹刮剖荆剿删剔剃钊刨刽剽剁剜刈剐蒯刎刖刿剀剡劂劁刳劓劐剞刭罰刪剛劃劇劑剷釗劉劊剮剝劍剋剎創

Iconic (12)

利制别则列班刷辨剌𰄩則別

Sound (1 of 6 verified)

到钊氘釗劄剳

Simplified (3)

师归帅

Unknown (0 of 2 verified)

蓟魝

說文解字

《說文》：“刀，兵也。象形。”

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)