Chinese

Noun

書刀

1. (historical) “writing knife” (knife used for preparing bamboo and wood for writing and for deleting and correcting writings on the tablets)

Japanese

Pronunciation

• On'yomi
• (Tokyo) しょとう [shòtóó] (Heiban - [0])^[1]
• (Tokyo) しょ​とう [shóꜜtòò] (Atamadaka - [1])^[1]
• IPA^(key): [ɕo̞to̞ː]

Noun

書刀 ‎(hiragana しょとう, romaji shotō, historical hiragana しょたう)

1. small knife for cutting paper

References

1. 1 2 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9