Talk:刀 (disambiguation)

Korean?

Does this refer to any category of Korean swords, too? Hong Qi Gong (Talk - Contribs) 17:40, 19 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I searched a Korean dictionary (http://kr.dic.yahoo.com/) for "刀", but didn't find anything specific to Korea.--Endroit (talk) 17:59, 19 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

刀 in Korean generally refers to "dagger" or to decorated swords for self-defense, accessory, or ritual ceremony.

eunjangdo (은장도, 銀粧刀 literally 'silver decorated dagger'), used for women's accessory and self-defense

dando (단도 短刀, literally 'short sword')

nando (난도 鑾刀, literally 'sword with bells'), used for Jongmyo jerye, Confucius ceremony

刀 is somewhat equivalent to kal (칼), but is not solely used. --Appletrees (talk) 01:25, 20 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Existence of this page

I don't think it's normal to have an East Asian character be the title of an article (although we do use them as redirects, or as part of the titles of articles that may be unclear without them, such as East Asian surnames with a single pronunciation, but more than one character). Badagnani (talk) 04:12, 20 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

We know it's not normal, but this is a classic WP:DAB situation. It's similar to the 饅頭 dab you created Badagnani. If you'd like, please weigh in at the discussions at Wikipedia talk:Disambiguation#New guidelines for CJKV disambiguation pages.--Endroit (talk) 04:27, 20 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I think in cases like this one where common usage is different by language, a DAB page is our best option. In other cases where the characters refer to something only in one specific language, then a redirect would be appropriate. Hong Qi Gong (Talk - Contribs) 04:45, 20 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]