𢇍 - Dong Chinese dictionary

cut

Archaic variant of 絕.

Components

𢆶 Iconic component

yōu

threads

𢆶 Iconic component

yōu

threads

刀 Iconic component

dāo

knife

Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 刀 than it was in ancient scripts.

Evolution

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)

Bronze script

Late Warring States (~250 BC)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical script

Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

刀

dāo

knife; old coin; measure

刀

diāo

刀

Dāo

surname Dao

刀

dāo

knife; blade; single-edged sword; cutlass; CL:把[bǎ]; (slang) dollar (loanword); classifier for sets of one hundred sheets (of paper); classifier for knife cuts or stabs

𢆶

yōu

small; insignificant

𢆶

zī

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese	Middle Chinese	Pinyin	Gloss

Miscellaneous

Strokes	14
Unicode	U+221CD
Shuowen	“絕，斷絲也。从糸，从刀，从卩。，古文絕，象不連體，絕二絲。”

Sources

Academia Sinica

Unicode

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