Radical 18 or radical knife () meaning "
knife" is one of 23
Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of 2
strokes.
When appearing at the right side of a Chinese character, it usually transforms into 刂.
In the ''
Kangxi Dictionary'', there are 377 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this
radical.
is also the 22nd indexing component in the ''
Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components'' predominantly adopted by
Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in
mainland China
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. Two associated indexing components, and , are affiliated to the principal indexing component .
Evolution
File:刀-oracle.svg, Oracle bone script character
File:刀-bronze-shang.svg, Bronze script character
File:刀-bigseal.svg, Large seal script
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character
File:刀-seal.svg, Small seal script character
Derived characters
Sinogram
As an isolated character it is one of the
kyōiku kanji
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or a kanji taught in second grade.
References
Literature
*
*Leyi Li: “Tracing the Roots of Chinese Characters: 500 Cases”. Beijing 1993,
External links
Unihan Database - U+5200
{{Simplified Chinese radicals
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022
Kyōiku kanji