| Uni: | 5200 |
| Meaning: | knife |
| Pny: | dāo |
| Bopo: | ㄉㄠ |
| Wade: | tao1 |
| Jyutping: | dou1 |
| Yale: | dou1 |
| Poj: | to |
| Cn: | (刂) 立刀旁 lìdāopáng |
| Onyomi: | トウ tō |
| Kunyomi: | かたな katana |
| Jp: | 刀 katana (刂) 立刀/りっとう rittō |
| Hang: | 칼 kal |
| Hanja: | 도 do |
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. Two associated indexing components, and, are affiliated to the principal indexing component .
| Strokes | Characters | |
|---|---|---|
| +0 | component only | |
| +1 | SC/KO/TC/JP (=刃) | |
| +2 | ||
| +3 | (=刊) SC (= -> 艸) | |
| +4 | SC (=劉) SC (=則) SC (=剛) SC (=創) | |
| +5 | SC variant (=刪) TC/JP variant (= -> 力) (= -> 力) TC/JP variant SC variant (=別) SC (=剗) SC (=剄) | |
| +6 | (=創) (=剁) SC/JP (=剎) (= -> 力) SC (=劊) SC (=㓨) SC (=劌) SC (=剴) SC (=劑) | |
| +7 | (=創) SC (=剮) SC (=劍) | |
| +8 | (=創) JP (=劍) JP (=劑) SC/JP (=剝) (= -> 門) SC (=劇) GB TC variant | |
| +9 | Traditional variant JP (=剩) JP nonstandard (=劍) | |
| +10 | ||
| +11 | ||
| +12 | ||
| +13 | (=劍) | |
| +14 | (=劍) (=劍) | |
| +15 | ||
| +17 | ||
| +19 | ||
| +21 |
As an isolated character it is one of the Kyōiku kanji or a kanji taught in second grade.[1]