Chinese Character Wiki

剀

kǎi

sharpen

Components
岂 sound component

岂  Sound component

qǐ, kǎi

  

victorious music, happy

刂 meaning component

刂  Meaning component

dāo

  

knife

knife

Evolution

剀 Seal script Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
剀 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
剀 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

剀 (剴) 

kǎi

sharpen; carefully, thorough; carefully; moderately

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

6294th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Traditional

剴

Unicode

U+5240


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