carving or engraving knife

Components
奇 sound component

  Sound component

  

strange

刂 meaning component

  Meaning component

dāo

  

knife

knife

Evolution

剞 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
剞 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

carving or engraving knife; grave; curved wood graver

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

7417th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Unicode

U+525E

Shuowen

“剞,剞,曲刀也。从刀,奇聲。”


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