Radical 18

"刀" redirects here. For other uses, see 刀 (disambiguation).

For the four stroke lance radical, see Radical 79.

刀
Radical 18 (U+2F11)
刀 (U+5200) "knife"
Pinyin:	dāo
Bopomofo:	ㄉㄠ
Wade–Giles:	tao1
Jyutping:	dou1
Cantonese Yale:	dou1
Hiragana:	かたな katana
Kanji:	刀 katana
Hangul:	칼 kal
Sino-Korean:	도 do
Stroke order animation

Radical 18 meaning "knife" is one of 23 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of 2 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary there are 377 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

Characters with Radical 18

seal script character

strokes	character
without additional strokes	刀 刁 刂
1 additional stroke	刃 刄
2 additional strokes	刅 分 切 刈
3 additional strokes	刉 刊 刋 刌 刍
4 additional strokes	刎 刏 刐 刑 划 刓 刔 刕 刖 列 刘 则 刚 创
5 additional strokes	刜 初 刞 刟 删 刡 刢 刣 判 別 刦 刧 刨 利 刪 别 刬 刭
6 additional strokes	刮 刯 到 刱 刲 刳 刴 刵 制 刷 券 刹 刺 刻 刼 刽 刾 刿 剀 剁 剂
7 additional strokes	剃 剄 剅 剆 則 剈 剉 削 剋 剌 前 剎 剏 剐 剑
8 additional strokes	剒 剓 剔 剕 剖 剗 剘 剙 剚 剛 剜 剝 剞 剟 剠 剡 剢 剣 剤 剥 剦 剧
9 additional strokes	剨 剪 剫 剬 剭 剮 副 剰 剱
10 additional strokes	剩 割 剳 剴 創 剶
11 additional strokes	剷 剸 剹 剺 剻 剼 剽 剾 剿
12 additional strokes	劀 劁 劂 劃 劄
13 additional strokes	劅 劆 劇 劈 劉 劊 劋 劌 劍 劎 劏
14 additional strokes	劐 劑 劒 劓 劔
15 additional strokes	劕
17 additional strokes	劖
19 additional strokes	劗 劘
21 additional strokes	劙 劚

Literature

• Leyi Li: “Tracing the Roots of Chinese Characters: 500 Cases”. Beijing 1993, ISBN 978-7-5619-0204-2

External links

• Unihan Database - U+5200