Taivo A Taiwan Mandarin dictionary

dāo

ㄉㄠ

  1. 1knife; blade; single-edged sword; cutlass
  2. 2(slang) (loanword) dollar
  3. 3classifier for sets of one hundred sheets (of paper)
  4. 4classifier for knife cuts or stabs
  5. 5(Internet slang) to bargain; to ask for a small discount (esp. on second-hand marketplaces)
  6. 6(Internet slang) to knife (sb) (often used hyperbolically, as in 想刀他[xiang3 dao1 ta1] "I could kill him!")
Example

少一把刀。

shǎo yì bǎ dāo

There is a knife missing.

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