刀 in English

Measure word

• 把 bǎ to hold; to grasp; to hold a baby in position to help it urinate or defecate; handlebar; classifier: handful, bundle... attested

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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

How it used to be written

• Oracle bone script 商
• Clerical script 東漢
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Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

Examples

• 书桌上有一把剪刀。

  There is a pair of scissors on the desk.

• 他用刀切了肉。

  He cut the meat with a knife.

• 你有刀吗？

  Do you have a knife?

• 你的刀生锈了。

  Your knife is rusty.

• 她用一把刀杀死了他。

  She killed him with a knife.

• 她用刀子切蘋果。

  She cut the apple with a knife.

• 少一把刀。

  There is a knife missing.

• 我找不到刀。

  I can't find the knife.

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