Chinese symbol for “scissors”
剪刀
jiǎn dāo
scissors; measure word: 把 (bǎ)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for scissors is 剪刀 (jiǎn dāo), defined as: scissors; measure word: 把 (bǎ).
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “scissors”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 铰 (鉸) | jiǎo | scissors; to cut (with scissors) |
| 剪子 | jiǎn zi | clippers; scissors |
| 铰刀 (鉸刀) | jiǎo dāo | reamer; scissors |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 剪刀.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 剪辑 (剪輯) | jiǎn jí | to edit (raw footage: film, video, audio etc); edited version |
| 修剪 | xiū jiǎn | to prune; to trim |
| 剪纸 (剪紙) | jiǎn zhǐ | papercutting (Chinese folk art); to make paper cutouts |
| 剪掉 | jiǎn diào | to cut off; to cut away |
| 剪影 | jiǎn yǐng | paper-cut silhouette; outline |
| 刀子 | dāo zi | knife; measure word: 把 (bǎ) |
| 刀剑 (刀劍) | dāo jiàn | sword |
| 开刀 (開刀) | kāi dāo | (of a surgeon) to perform an operation; (of a patient) to have an operation |
See also: Japanese symbol for “scissors”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.