knife

Origin & mnemonic

This radical originates from a pictographic depiction of a knife blade in oracle-bone script. It represents the shape of a cutting blade or sword.

Mnemonic: The vertical stroke with a slight curve at the top resembles a sharp blade poised to cut.

• 别bié🔊

  to leave; to part (from)

  HSK 1

  7 strokes

• 利lì🔊

  sharp

  HSK 6

  7 strokes

• 初chū🔊

  (bound form) at first; initially

  HSK 3

  7 strokes

• 判pàn🔊

  (bound form) to differentiate; to distinguish

  HSK 6

  7 strokes

• 删shān🔊

  to delete

  HSK 7

  7 strokes

• 刨páo🔊

  to dig

  HSK 7

  7 strokes

• 刜fú🔊

  to chop

  7 strokes

• 刞qù🔊

  old variant of 耝[qu4]

  7 strokes

• 刡mǐn🔊

  to scrape; to pare

  7 strokes

• 刬chǎn🔊

  variant of 鏟|铲[chan3]

  7 strokes

• 刭jǐng🔊

  cut the throat

  7 strokes

• 到dào🔊

  to reach; to arrive

  HSK 1

  8 strokes

• 刺cì🔊

  thorn

  HSK 4

  8 strokes

• 刮guā🔊

  to blow (of the wind)

  HSK 6

  8 strokes

• 刷shuā🔊

  a brush

  HSK 4

  8 strokes

• 刻kè🔊

  quarter (hour)

  HSK 2

  8 strokes

• 剂jì🔊

  (bound form) a compound made by mixing ingredients (esp. a medicinal or chemical product)

  HSK 7

  8 strokes

• 制zhì🔊

  system

  HSK 7

  8 strokes

• 剁duò🔊

  to chop up (meat etc)

  8 strokes

• 券quàn🔊

  variant of 券[quan4]

  HSK 6

  8 strokes

• 㓥tāng🔊

  (Cantonese) to butcher; to cut open; to chop up (used in 劏房|㓥房[tang1 fang2])

  8 strokes

• 刱chuàng🔊

  variant of 創|创[chuang4]

  8 strokes

• 刲kuī🔊

  cut open and clean

  8 strokes

• 刳kū🔊

  to cut open

  8 strokes

• 刴duò🔊

  variant of 剁[duo4]

  8 strokes

• 刵èr🔊

  cutting off the ears as punishment

  8 strokes

• 刹shā🔊

  to brake

  8 strokes

• 刽guì🔊

  to amputate

  8 strokes

• 刾cì🔊

  old variant of 刺[ci4]

  8 strokes

• 刿guì🔊

  cut

  8 strokes

• 剀kǎi🔊

  used in 剴切|剀切[kai3 qie4]

  8 strokes

• 前qián🔊

  front

  HSK 1

  9 strokes

• 克kè🔊

  to be able to

  HSK 2

  9 strokes

• 则zé🔊

  (literary) (conjunction used to express contrast with a previous clause) but; then

  HSK 7

  9 strokes

• 剑jiàn🔊

  variant of 劍|剑[jian4]

  HSK 6

  9 strokes

• 剃tì🔊

  shave

  HSK 7

  9 strokes

• 削xuē🔊

  to pare

  HSK 7

  9 strokes

• 剐guǎ🔊

  cut off the flesh as punishment

  9 strokes

• 剌là🔊

  perverse

  9 strokes

• 剅lóu🔊

  (dialect) an opening at the bottom of a dike for letting water in or out

  9 strokes

• 刚gāng🔊

  hard

  HSK 2

  10 strokes

• 剧jù🔊

  theatrical work (play, opera, TV series etc)

  HSK 6

  10 strokes

• 剥bō🔊

  to peel

  HSK 7

  10 strokes

• 剒cuò🔊

  to cut

  10 strokes

• 剔tī🔊

  to scrape the meat from bones

  10 strokes

• 剕fèi🔊

  amputation of limbs as corporal punishment

  10 strokes

• 剖pōu🔊

  to cut open

  10 strokes

• 剚zì🔊

  erect

  10 strokes