Radical 18

刀 刁 刂
17 ⼐ ◄	18th	► ⼒ 19
Pinyin :	dāo 立 刀 旁 lìdāopáng (= radically standing knife)
Zhuyin :	ㄉ ㄠ
Hiragana :	か た な katana
Kanji :	刀 katana (= knife) 立 刀 rittô (= standing knife)
Hangul :	칼
Sinocorean :	도 you
Codepoint :	U + 5200 5201 5202
Stroke sequence :

The Radical 18 meaning " knife , sword " is one of 23 traditional radicals of Chinese characters that are written with two strokes. With 90 character combinations in Mathews' Chinese-English Dictionary , it has a high frequency.

The radical diameter increases only in the traditional characters - list of traditional radicals consisting of 214 radicals 18th position. It can be found in a completely different place in modern abbreviation dictionaries. In the New Chinese-German Dictionary from the People's Republic of China, for example, it is 17th and 27th.

The short form of the radical, 刂, is always on the right; the sign is similar to the katakana sign リ "ri". The other variant 刁 is rare.

Most of the characters found under the radical 刀 have to do with knives or blades, such as:

character	Explanation
刃	Cutting edge
切	to cut
券	Admission ticket

In the case of an admission ticket, the connection only becomes clear when you hold an admission ticket in front of your eyes: It consists of two sections that are cut apart for validation. The variant in the upper part of the symbol 负 (= to carry something on your back), which is also described as a diagonal knife (撇 刀头) because of its similarity to 刀, although the component is often a modified form of the human being 人, is also considered a knife ( Radical 9 ) is. Sometimes the “oblique knife” also stands for radical 87 , the claw 爪, as in the abbreviation 争 (= fight). Some of today's "oblique knives" are also derived from the shape of the head of animals, such as:

象 (= elephant),

兔 (= rabbit) and

龟 (= turtle, shortened, actually: 龜).

Often, however, they are neither knives, nor claws nor people, but only general components of shortened characters such as 刍 (= hay).

In addition, the character 刀 in 叨 (= babble) and in 召 (= call) has the function of a sound carrier.

Character combinations ruled by radical 18

Katana blade

Strokes	character
+ 00	刀 刁 刂
+ 01	刃 刄
+ 02	刅 分 切 刈
+ 03	刉 刊 刋 刌 刍
+ 04	刎 刏 刐 刑 划 刓 刔 刕 刖 列 刘 则 刚 创
+ 05	刜 初 刞 刟 删 刡 刢 刣 判 別 刦 刧 刨 利 刪 别 刬 刭
+ 06	刮 刯 到 刱 刲 刳 刴 刵 制 刷 券 刹 刺 刻 刼 刽 刾 刿 剀 剁 剂
+ 07	剃 剄 剅 剆 則 剈 剉 削 剋 剌 前 剎 剏 剐 剑
+ 08	剒 剓 剔 剕 剖 剗 剘 剙 剚 剛 剜 剝 剞 剟 剠 剡 剢 剣 剤 剥 剦 剧
+ 09	剨 剪 剫 剬 剭 剮 副 剰 剱
+10	剩 割 剳 剴 創 剶
+11	剷 剸 剹 剺 剻 剼 剽 剾 剿
+12	劀 劁 劂 劃 劄
+13	劅 劆 劇 劈 劉 劊 劋 劌 劍 劎 劏
+14	劐 劑 劒 劓 劔
+15	劕
+17	劖
+19	劗 劘
+21	劙 劚

In the Unicode block Kangxi radicals , radical 18 is coded under the code point number 12.049 (U + 2F11).

literature

• Edoardo Fazzioli : Painted Words. 214 Chinese characters - from picture to concept . Marixverlag, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-937715-34-7 , p. 129 .
• Cecilia Lindqvist : A world of signs - about the Chinese and their writing . Droemer Knaur, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-426-26482-X , p. 250 .

For detailed references, see List of Traditional Radicals: Literature

Web links

Commons : Radikal 18  - Graphic representations of Radikal 18

• u Xiù cai.oai.de (PDF; 1.72 MB) Explanation of Radikal 18 on pages 9 and 18