刀
knife / blade / single-edged sword / cutlass / CL:把[ba3] / (slang) dollar (loanword) / classifier for sets of one hundred sheets (of paper) / classifier for knife cuts or stabs
刀 character breakdown
radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 4) / see 撇[pie3]
Pocahontas (pi-) is eating a banana (丿) in the elevator's living room (-e3).
Character component without intrinsic meaning
Characters with 刀 as component
that / those / then (in that case) / commonly pr. [nei4] before a classifier, esp. in Beijing
at first / (at the) beginning / first / junior / basic
edge of blade
Character component without intrinsic meaning
roof beam / beam (structure) / bridge
梁
=
氵
+
八
+
刀
+
木
:
Li Qingzhao (li) wants to repair the anglepod's kitchen (ang2), specifically, she wants to set up a new beam on the roof (梁). To reach her goal she puts the lower end of a Christmas tree (木) into a broad water bottle (氵) so that it stands steady. She then proceeds to chop off all the branches with a cleaver (刀), so she can obtain the beam. As she lifts the beam onto the walls, she pushes off an eight ball (八), which falls down and crashes the water bottle (氵). Fortunately she won't need the water bottle anymore since she already put up the beam of the new roof (梁).
Character component without intrinsic meaning
Words with 刀
lit. two segments with a single cut (idiom) / fig. to make a clean break (idiom)
lit. knifes piercing both sides (idiom) / fig. to attach a great importance to friendship, up to the point of being able to sacrifice oneself for it
to lend sb a knife to kill sb / to get sb else to do one's dirty work / to attack using the strength of another (idiom)
name of the lateral "knife" radical 刂[dao1] in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 18), occurring in 到[dao4], 利[li4], 別|别[bie2] etc
lit. to be the meat on sb's chopping block (idiom) / fig. to be at sb's mercy
lit. to climb mountains of swords and enter seas of flames (idiom) / fig. to go through trials and tribulations (often, for a noble cause)
two-faced, three knives (idiom); double-cross / double dealing and back stabbing
lit. to climb mountains of swords and enter cauldrons of boiling oil (idiom) / fig. to go through trials and tribulations