匕
ヒ, さじ, さじのひ
spoon, spoon or katakana hi radical (no. 21)
JLPT0 G13 S0 F5000
A depiction of a spoon-like eating implement with double, aligned prongs → *spoon* → *dagger*. Note that many publications offer as the standard form of 匕 the way it appears, for example, in 牝, eliminating the leftward protrusion of the horizontal stroke.
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