刀 (dāo) means Knife. Below are 8 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.
Dictionary examples
西餐要用 刀 和叉子。
Xīcān yào yòng dāo hé chāzi.
Western food is eaten with a knife and fork.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 叉子
这把 刀 非常锋利，小心手。
Zhè bǎ dāo fēicháng fēnglì, xiǎoxīn shǒu.
This knife is very sharp; mind your hands.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 锋利
这把 刀 放久了，已经生锈了。
Zhè bǎ dāo fàng jiǔ le, yǐjīng shēngxiù le.
This knife has been left so long that it has rusted.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 生锈
铁匠一锤一锤地把铁打成了 刀 。
Tiějiàng yì chuí yì chuí de bǎ tiě dǎ chéng le dāo.
The blacksmith beat the iron into a blade, hammer blow by hammer blow.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 锤
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Words that contain 刀
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Questions about 刀
How is 刀 used in a sentence?
This page shows 8 sentences using 刀 (dāo, "Knife"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.
Are these sentences machine generated?
No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.
Why do some sentences show 刀 inside a longer word?
Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 刀 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.
Is 刀 an HSK word?
Yes — 刀 is on the official HSK 4 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 4 page.
Where can I see the full entry for 刀?
The dictionary page for 刀 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.
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