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大刀

だいとう

Common

Variants

大刀だいとう
横刀だいとう
大刀たち
太刀たち
横刀たち

Meanings

straight single-edged Japanese sword (from the mid-Heian period or earlier)
guandao; Chinese glaive
long sword (esp. the tachi, worn on the hip edge down by samurai); large sword

Kanji used