前
JLPT HSK 1

qián
Top: a part 䒑 of the head/horns of a sheep 羊, bottom: meat 月/肉, knife, cut刂
The horns and the flesh are cut (beginning) at the front position.

	师
JLPT HSK 1

shī
Left: knife刂, right: one 一 (here: stick) and cloth 巾
He comes with a knife, a stick and good cloth: The master!

	到
JLPT HSK 2

dào
Left: get to/reach 至 (From the sky 一 an arrow 厶 comes to the earth 土: reaching it.), right: knife刂 (phonetically knife 刀 dāo)
Arriving with a pronunciation similar to "knive" means: to arrive.

	别
JLPT HSK 2

bié, biè
Left: another 另 (If it doesn't work with words 口, you have to try it with force 力: That's sth. different.), right: knife 刂
If you make another thing by cutting, this is 'separating'.

	班
JLPT HSK 2

bān
Left and right: king 王, center: knife 刂
If there are the 'knifes' between the kings, it is their squads.

	刻
JLPT HSK 3

kè
Left: (zodiac) pig 亥/ 豚 (head 亠, fat body ノノ small tail 丶), right: knife刂
(piece-rate work at the slaughterhouse) The pig is cut with a knife (= carved) within a quarter hour.

	刚
JLPT HSK 3

gāng
Left: hill 冈 (image of a hill), right: cutting/knife 刂
(Is probably a gristle/cartilage in the meat?) A "hill" (= a thickening) is for cutting with a knife: particularly hard.

	刷
JLPT HSK 3

shuā, shuà
Left: bottocks in side view 尸 with cloth 巾 is here understood as tail [to be correct: 尾 means tail], right: knife刂
At the bottocks the 'cloth' [="tail"] is cut and used as: a brush.

	刮
JLPT HSK 3

guā
Left: tongue 舌, right: knife 刂
You do it with the tongue: blowing, or with the knife: scraping.

	列
JLPT HSK 4

liè
Left: evil, bad 歹 (image of a bare bone, vertebra), right: knife 刂
(i.e. backbone) The bones are lain bare by knife: arranged in a row.

	利
JLPT HSK 4

lì
Left: rice plant 禾, right: knife 刂
(Harvesting rice plants with a knife is favorable and brings profit.

	划
JLPT HSK 4

huá, huà
Left: halberd 戈, right: knife, to cut 刂
A halberd is for cutting, but also for scratching, paddling or planning.

	剧
JLPT HSK 4

jù
Left: reside/live 居 (Where the buttock 尸 [side view] becomes old 古, he has his residence), right: knife, to cut 刂
It plays at his residence with a knife: this drama.

	则
JLPT HSK 4

zé
Left: money 贝/貝 (cone-shell 目 with two feelers 八 as shell-money), right: knife, to cut 刂 (here: to divide)
Money [= the capital] and knives [= violence] determine the rules and standards. Or: The money 贝 is divided 刂 according to rules.

	倒
JLPT HSK 4

dǎo, dào
From left: person 亻, get to/reach 到 (至 arrow falling back to earth 土), knife 刂
The person reaches the knife and falls into it.

	剩
JLPT HSK 4

shèng
Left: to use, take advantage of 乘 (When the two people 丬,匕 lean against the shade-giving 一 tree 木, they: are using it.), right: to cut/knife刂
When using a knife, there are always remainders.

	帅
JLPT HSK 4

shuài
Left: knife/cut刂, right: cloth/fabric 巾
If you use the knife for cutting the cloth, you will be handsome.

	判
JLPT HSK 4

pàn
Left: half 半 (A knife 丨 cuts a birthday cake 二 with candles 丷 in half.), right: knife 刂
If sth. is cut to half with a knife, you shall judge is somebody is discriminated.

	坚
JLPT HSK 4

jiān
Top: knife 刂 and hand 又, below: earth 土
With a knife in my hand I am on the earth: strong and resolute!

	罚
JLPT HSK 5

fá
Top: variant of eye 罒, bottom: word 讠/言, knife 刂
You can use a (deprecating) stare, words or knifes for: punishing.

	制
JLPT HSK 5

zhì
Left: cow 牛, cloth 巾; right: knife刂
A cow wrapped in cloth and with a knife: what a system!

	归
JLPT HSK 5

guī
Left: knife 刂, right: hand /彐; simplified from 帰 or 歸. Showed originally a man with a sword who returns to his wife 帚 (=hand with broom)
When the man with a sword is at his wife 妇 (today: hand without broom) he has returned.

	创
JLPT HSK 5

chuāng, chuàng
Left: warehouse 仓 (Under the pointed roof 人 is a roll of cloth 㔾 in the warehouse.), right: knife刂
Go to the warehouse (for bandages) if a knife made a wound.

	刺
JLPT HSK 5

cì
Left: thorn 朿 (Originally a tree 木 with a pointed triangle symbolizing a thorn.), right: knife刂
Use a thorn or a knife for piercing.

	狮
JLPT HSK 5

shī
Left: wild animal 犭 (dog on the hind legs), right: master, teacher 师 (knife刂, 帀 = 一 as head and fabric 巾 as fur)
(The lion's fur is popular) The animal that you skin with a knife over its head is: the lion.

	删
JLPT HSK 5

shān
Left: book, booklet 册, right: knife, to cut刂
"From the booklet it was cut", means (this page) was: deleted.

	浏
JLPT HSK 5

liú
Left: water 氵, right: 刘 (script, cultur 文 [Image of a folding table for writing a text], knife 刂 [here: two pages])
Like "through the water" you read scripts (2 pages each), when skimming over.

	临
JLPT HSK 5

lín
Left: knife, to cut刂, right: half of bamboo 竹, two mouths 口
He divided the bamboo with the knife. This he did just before giving it to the two mouths.

	剑
JLPT HSK 6

jiàn
Left: together 佥 (A person 人 as one 一 is with three ツ together.), right: knife, to cut 刂
A 'together' for cutting is the: double-edged sword.

	削
JLPT HSK 6

xiāo, xuē
Left: alike/resemble 肖 (Small 小 bodies 月 are alike.), right: knife 刂
Small bodies are cut with a knife, when scraping, whittling or peeling.

	辨
JLPT HSK 6

biàn
Twice: bitter, sharp 辛 (tattoo needle), middle knife刂 - Thus a double-bladed knife
A double-bladed knife has sharpnesses (at each blade), that differenciate.

	剥
JLPT HSK 6

bāo, bō
Left: diary, record 录 ("to squeeze out" = part of green 绿 where fibers 糸 are squeezed by hand 彐 a green 绿 liquid 水 emerges), right: knife, to cut刂
What can be squeezed or cut, can be peeled.

	副
JLPT HSK 6

fù
Left barrel of rice wine 畐 (originally image of a barrel to offer at the temple, therefore also wealth and luck 福), right knife 刂 (Here刂 as a variante of two 二)
This sake barrel is the second, as auxiliary - as a 'deputy'.

	剂
JLPT HSK 6

jì
Left: be in the same level 齐 (A written text 文 lays flatly on two vertical sticks丿|, that are in the same level.), right: knife, to cut刂
For achieving the same (=correct) level/amount, you cut it and get the dose.

	刑
JLPT HSK 6

xíng
Left: open, start 开 (image of the entrance gate of a buddh. temple), right: knife 刂
Who openly uses his knife, will be: punished.

	刹
JLPT HSK 6

chà, shā
Left: to kill 杀 (marker 㐅 in the tree 木, where he was killed), right: knife 刂
The cross at the tree was made with a knife and marks the area of the monastery.

	剖
JLPT HSK 6

pōu
Left: spit 咅 (stand 立 with open mouth 口 and spit), right: knife刂
Spit on the knife before you cut sth. open.

	割
JLPT HSK 6

gē
Left: damage 害 (Under the roof 宀 is a growing potted plant 丰,口, which damaged it.), right: knife 刂
A damage is caused with the knife by cutting apart.

	喇
JLPT HSK 6

lā, lǎ
Left: mouth 口, right: 剌 (bundle 束 [Plants 木/禾 like sheafs of rice (cf. 兼), which are bound with a ribbon 口 as a bundle], knife 刂)
From the mouth a bundle of cutting (sounds): The trompet!

	刊
JLPT HSK 6

kān
Left: dry 干 (laundry rack), right: knife刂 (Here: see the knife as printing plates 刂)
You need dry printing plates for printing & publishing.

	剔
JLPT HSK 6

tī
Left: easy 易 (warming sunshine), right: knife刂
It is easy to use a knife for picking or scraping.

	筛
JLPT HSK 6

shāi
Top: bamboo 竹, bottom: master, teacher 师 (He has a knife 刂, a stick 一 and good cloth 巾)
Bamboo 竹 was cut 刂 for it and the sieve 一 is made of cloth 巾: a sieve.

	涮
JLPT HSK 6

shuàn
Left: water 氵, right: brush 刷 (The "tail" [= cloth 巾 at the buttocks 尸] is cut刂 and used as a brush) [cf. tail 尾]
Use water and a brush for rinsing.

	剃
JLPT no HSK

tì
Left: younger brother 弟 (A feathered 丷arrow λ from the bow 弓 of my younger brother.), right: knife, to cut刂
My younger brother (still) cuts himself when shaving.

	钊
JLPT no HSK

zhāo
Left: metal 钅/金, right: knife, to cut刂
The metal became a knife to cut. Therefore it was: "encouraged".

	刘
JLPT no HSK

liú
Left: text/language 文 (image of a folding table, on which a text is written), right: knife, to cut刂
Who manages the texts and the cutting: Family Liu.

	剌
JLPT no HSK

là
Left: bundle 束 (Plants 木 like sheafs of rice (cf.兼), which are bound with a ribbon 口 as a bundle), right: knife, to cut刂
The bundle was cut with the knife, which was unreasonable.

	剿
JLPT no HSK

chāo, jiǎo
Left: nest 巢 (three beaks 巛 in a nest 田 in a tree 木), right: knife, to cut 刂
(All in) the nest I (kill) with the knife when extirpating.

	刨
JLPT no HSK

bào, páo
Left: enwrap 包 (The wrap 勹 itself 己 makes it to be wrapped.), right: knife, to cut刂
At the enwrapped it is cut, when leveling it to make it smooth.

	刽
JLPT no HSK

guì
Left: to meet, possible 会 (When persons 人 are speaking 云 together as "two 二 noses 厶" they meet.), right: knife, to cut 刂
At a 'meeting' of blades, something is: cut off.