菜刀
cài dāo
Pinyin

Definition

菜刀
 - 
cài dāo
  1. vegetable knife
  2. kitchen knife
  3. cleaver
  4. CL:把[bǎ]

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

刀
Dāo
  1. 1 surname Dao
菜
cài
  1. 1 dish (type of food)
  2. 2 vegetable
  3. 3 cuisine
  4. 4 classifier: 盘 pán
  5. 5 classifier: 道 dào
  6. 6 (coll.) (one's) type
  7. 7 (of one's skills etc) weak
  8. 8 poor
菜刀
cài dāo
  1. 1 vegetable knife
  2. 2 kitchen knife
  3. 3 cleaver
  4. 4 classifier: 把 bǎ
蔬菜
shū cài
  1. 1 vegetables
  2. 2 classifier: 种 zhǒng
青菜
qīng cài
  1. 1 green vegetables
  2. 2 Chinese cabbage

Idioms (20)

一刀两断
yī dāo liǎng duàn
  1. 1 lit. two segments with a single cut (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to make a clean break (idiom)
一刀切
yī dāo qiē
  1. 1 lit. to cut all at one stroke (idiom); to impose uniformity
  2. 2 one solution fits a diversity of problems
  3. 3 one size fits all
人为刀俎，我为鱼肉
rén wéi dāo zǔ , wǒ wéi yú ròu
  1. 1 lit. to be the meat on sb's chopping block (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to be at sb's mercy
借刀杀人
jiè dāo shā rén
  1. 1 to lend sb a knife to kill sb
  2. 2 to get sb else to do one's dirty work
  3. 3 to attack using the strength of another (idiom)
两肋插刀
liǎng lèi chā dāo
  1. 1 lit. knifes piercing both sides (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to attach a great importance to friendship, up to the point of being able to sacrifice oneself for it

Sample Sentences

别说枪支管制了，我听说世博会的时候，买菜刀也是实名制吧。
bié shuō qiāngzhī guǎnzhì le ，wǒ tīngshuō Shìbóhuì de shíhou ，mǎi càidāo yě shì shímíngzhì ba 。
Controlling guns is just part of it. I heard that during the Shanghai Expo, buying a kitchen knife was under real-name registration.
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是啊，所以你去买菜刀记得带好居住证。
shì a ，suǒyǐ nǐ qù mǎi càidāo jìde dàihǎo jūzhùzhèng 。
Yeah, so if you went to buy a kitchen knife you had to remember to bring your residence permit.
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没有菜刀，也没有铲子和勺子。
méiyǒu càidāo ，yě méiyǒu chǎnzi hé sháozi 。
We don't have a kitchen knife. We don't have a spatula or a spoon either.
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