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剌
🇹🇼🇭🇰🇨🇳🇯🇵🇰🇷

slash

HSK 10
Objects →Tools →Weapons
là
ラツ
もと.る
랄
Depicts using a knife (刂) to cut crops (𣏮). Similar in origin to 利.
Components
𣏮 stalk+ 刂 knife (side) =
剌 slash
𣏮 Iconic component
liè stalk
the stalk (stem) of grain
Depicts a grain stalk (禾) with mark in the middle to indicate the stem.
刂 Iconic component
dāo knife (side)
knife
刂 is a component form of 刀.
Notes
Similar Characters
刈 mow刊 publication刎 cut throat刑 punishment划 paddle (simp)刖 cutting off feet刘 destroy (simp)刚 tough (simp)创 establish (simp)删 delete (simp)判 judge刨 plane刪 delete (trad)刭 throat (simp)刮 scrape刳 cut out刹 monastery (simp)刺 thorn刻 carve刽 amputate (simp)
Historical Evolution
Oracle (~1250-1000 BC)
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(~1250-1000 BC)
Oracle (~1250-1000 BC)
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Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
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Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
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Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
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Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
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Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
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Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
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Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
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Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
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Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
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Early Warring States (~400 BC)
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Early Warring States (~400 BC)
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Late Warring States (~250 BC)
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Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
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Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
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Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
Seal Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
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Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
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Shuowen (~100 AD)
剌
Regular
Modern
Chinese
剌 [lá]
to slash
剌 [là]
perverse; unreasonable; absurd
Example Sentences
CHINESE WORDS (13)
瓦剌 [Wǎ​là] #52,363
Oirat Mongols (alliance of tribes of Western Mongolia) (Ming Dynasty term)
亚剌伯 [Yà​lā​bó]
(old) Arabia
亚剌伯 [Yà​lā​bó]
(old) Arabia
大剌剌 [dà​là​là]
pompous
扎马剌丁 [Zā​mǎ​lá​dīng]
Jamal al-Din ibn Muhammad al-Najjari (13th century), famous Persian astronomer and scholar who served Khubilai Khan 忽必烈 from c. 1260
札马剌丁 [Zhá​mǎ​lá​dīng]
see 紮馬剌丁|扎马剌丁[Zā​mǎ​lá​dīng]
札马剌丁 [Zhá​mǎ​lá​dīng]
see 紮馬剌丁|扎马剌丁[Zā​mǎ​lá​dīng]
榜葛剌 [Bǎng​gé​là]
old Chinese name for Bengal, now written 孟加拉[Mèng​jiā​lā]
满剌加 [Mǎn​là​jiā]
Ming Dynasty name for modern day Malacca
满剌加 [Mǎn​là​jiā]
Ming Dynasty name for modern day Malacca
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JAPANESE WORDS (14)
溌剌 [はつらつ] #37,212
lively
元気はつらつ [げんきはつらつ] #88,339
full of energy
亜剌比亜 [アラビア] #130,230
Arabia
生気溌剌 [せいきはつらつ] #202,531
being full of vitality
⭐ 虎列刺 [コレラ] #232,485
cholera
⭐ 伯剌西爾 [ブラジル] #264,387
Brazil
才気溌剌 [さいきはつらつ] #269,994
resourceful and quick-witted
⭐ 濠太剌利 [オーストラリア]
Australia
⭐ 馬尼剌 [マニラ]
Manila (Philippines)
別剌敦那 [ベラドンナ]
belladonna (Atropa belladonna)
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