First opened Thursday, August 27, 2009
剃刀
かみそり
- middle-high (nakadaka): falls after mora 3
- tail-high (odaka): falls after mora 4
How to read it: a line over a kana means the voice is high there, and ↓ marks where it drops. A kana with no line is low. With no ↓ the pitch stays high to the end and does not drop even on a following particle (が, は).
razor
A razor is “hair-shaver” — and the kanji came ready-made from Chinese.
Taken apart
No breakdown is shown for this word: Wiktionary's text for it doesn't give a split that spells the word and joins to its reading, and any other split would be a guess.
In a sentence
We don't have the data for this section. The pinned Tatoeba export has no sentence with a translation that uses this word and passes our filter.
What Wiktionary says
Quoted line by line from Wiktionary's Etymology section for this reading, taken from one dated dump so it can't change underneath us. Nothing below is paraphrased.
- “Compound of 髪 (kami, “hair on the head”) + 剃り (sori, “shaving facial hair or body hair; a shaver”, the 連(れん)用(よう)形(けい) (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of the verb 剃(そ)る (soru, “to shave facial hair or body hair”).). First cited in the ten-volume Wamyō Ruijushō of 934 CE.”
- “The kanji are from Chinese 剃刀 (tìdāo).”
Source: Wiktionary: 剃刀 (dump of 2026-09-02), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Reading, meaning and part of speech from JMdict, and kanji readings from KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG).
What the labels mean
- Compound
- Two or more words or stems joined into one.
- Borrowing
- Taken over from another language.
- Ateji
- Kanji chosen for their sound or sense after the word existed.