Kanji1 / 2
刀 kanji
sword, saber, knife
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 2
- School grade
- Grade 2 (elementary school)
On readings
トウ
Kun readings
かたなそり
Variant forms
刂釖Words with 刀
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —刀子small knife that is largely ornamental or used to cut open letters and the like
- —刀銭knife money; bronze coin of ancient China, shaped like an opened straight razor
- —刀布bronze currency of ancient China (both spade-shaped coins and knife coins)
- —納刀sheathing a sword; returning a sword to its scabbard
- —曲刀curved sword (e.g. a scimitar, shamshir, etc.); curved blade
- —妖刀bewitched sword; magical sword; demon sword
- —刀尖tip of a sword
- —刀室scabbard
- —洋刀sabre; saber
- —足刀outer edge of the foot (from little toe to heel) (karate)
- —作刀making a (Japanese) sword; sword making
- —刀創sword wound; sword cut
- —蛮刀barbarian's sword
- —長刀long sword
- —愛刀favorite sword; cherished sword
- —単刀(only) one sword; wielding a sword alone; being straight to the point
- —鉄刀steel sword; iron sword; type of iron sword associated with the latter half of the Kofun period
- —双刀pair of single-edged swords; dual blades; twin swords
- —二刀two swords; long sword and short sword; dual-sword wielding; two-sword fencing
- —円刃刀round-edged scalpel