菜刀càidāoTop 25000Meanings1. vegetable knife (classifier 把 ba3)2. kitchen knife3. cleaverCharacters used菜dish刀knifeExamples1这zhè把bǎ菜刀càidāo不够bùgòu锋利fēnglì，所以suǒyǐ我wǒ用yòng了le我wǒ的de折叠刀zhédiédāo来lái切qiē肉ròu。The kitchen knife wasn't sharp enough to cut the meat, so I used my pocket knife.