English [1] [n] knife; blade; sword [2] knife-shaped coin Mandarin (hanyu pinyin) dāo Cantonese (jyutping) dou1 Hakka (phonetic) [Kwangtung] tau1 to1 [Bao'an] tau1 [Dongguan] tau1 [Hailu] tau1 to1 [Siyan] tau1 to1 [Hong Kong] tau1 [Meixian] tau1 Minnan/Taiwanese to1 Vietnamese đao Japanese tou Korean to |