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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

小刀

xiǎodāo

knife

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

knife

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 小刀 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 小刀 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

她用她的小刀割断了绳子。tā yòng tā de xiǎo dāo gē duàn le shéng zi。

She cut the rope with her knife.

那把刀太钝了,根本切不动肉,我只好拿出我的小刀。nà bǎ dāo tài dùn le, gēn běn qiè bù dòng ròu, wǒ zhǐ hǎo ná chū wǒ de xiǎo dāo。

The knife was so blunt that I could not cut the meat with it and I resorted to my pocket knife.

给我一把军动小刀或者一把小洋刀。gěi wǒ yī bǎ jūn dòng xiǎo dāo huò zhě yī bǎ xiǎo yáng dāo。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 小刀.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 小刀.

Directly before

  • 的小刀2
  • 军动小刀1

Directly after

  • 小刀或者1
  • 小刀割断1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY

Where this entry comes from

The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.

Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

COMMON QUESTIONS

About 小刀

What does 小刀 mean in Chinese?

小刀 (xiǎodāo) means knife.

How do you pronounce 小刀?

小刀 is pronounced xiǎodāo.

Is 小刀 an HSK word?

小刀 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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