匕: 9 Terms and Phrases

• 匕
• spoon
• spoon or katakana hi radical (no. 21)

• 一匕
• one spoon
• one dagger

• 匕部
• Radical 21

• 匕箸
• spoon and chopsticks

• 匕首
• dagger
• dirk

• 石匕
• stone knife (Jomon-period tool, shaped like a rice spoon)

• 匕首を常に懐に持っております。
• I always have a knife with me.

• この時岩永が大尉の喉に匕首を振り下ろした。
• Iwanaga then attempted to slit the throat of the Senior Lieutenant with his short sword.

• 「匙（さじ）」の名称はその形状に由来し、江戸時代の考古・金石学研究において木内石亭が「天狗の飯匕（めしかい）」の俗称を紹介したことに始まっている。
• The name 'saji' (spoon) came from its shape, and began to be used by Sekitei KIUCHI who introduced a popular name, 'rice spoon of tengu (a mountain spirit, portrayed as winged and having a long nose),' to refer to this type of stone tool in his archaeological and epigraphical studies in the Edo period.