Radical 18

Radical 18 or radical knife (刀部) meaning "knife" is one of 23 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of 2 strokes.

Radical 18 (U+2F11)
(U+5200) "knife"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:dāo
Bopomofo:ㄉㄠ
Wade–Giles:tao1
Cantonese Yale:dou1
Jyutping:dou1
Pe̍h-ōe-jī:to
Japanese Kana:トウ tō (on'yomi)
かたな katana (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:도 do
Names
Chinese name(s):(刂) 立刀旁 lìdāopáng
Japanese name(s):刀 katana
(刂) 立刀/りっとう rittō
Hangul:칼 kal
Stroke order animation

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 22th 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 .

Evolution

Derived characters

StrokesCharacters
+0 component only
+1SC/KO/TC/JP (=刃)
+2
+3 (=刊) SC (= -> )
+4 SC (=劉) SC (=則) SC (=剛) SC (=創)
+5 SC variant (=刪) TC/JP variant (= -> ) (= -> ) TC/JP variant SC variant (=別) SC (=剗) SC (=剄)
+6 (=創) (=剁) SC/JP (=剎) (= -> ) 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) (= -> ) 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

Literature

  • Fazzioli, Edoardo (1987). Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters. calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko. New York: Abbeville Press. ISBN 0-89659-774-1.
  • Leyi Li: “Tracing the Roots of Chinese Characters: 500 Cases”. Beijing 1993, ISBN 978-7-5619-0204-2
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