刀 – sword, saber, knife

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The kanji 刀 means sword, saber, knife. Its on’yomi (Chinese-derived reading) is トウ (tou); its kun’yomi (native Japanese reading) is かたな、そり (katana, sori). It is written with 2 strokes, under radical 刀 (no. 18).

Stroke order

Stroke order from KanjiVG. Practise others with the stroke order lookup.

Readings

Type	Reading	Romaji
On’yomi	トウ	tou
Kun’yomi	かたな	katana
Kun’yomi	そり	sori

A dot separates the kanji’s part from the okurigana (kana written after it), e.g. まな.ぶ → 学ぶ.

Radical and components

Radical: 刀 (Kangxi radical 18).

Words using 刀

刀かたなsword (esp. Japanese single-edged)剃刀かみそりrazor

Example sentences

「刀の投擲の練習？」「すっぽ抜けただけです」

"Practising sword throwing?" "It just slipped out of my hands."

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Kanji with the same radical

分前制初判利別割切副券劇創則削刊

Sources: KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0), KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0), Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). About the data.