手里剑

Traditional form:

手裡劍

Pinyin (reading):

shǒulǐjiàn

Definitions:

• straight or circular throwing-knife used by ninja and samurai (loanword from Japanese 手裏剣 shuriken)

Characters:

• 手 - hand
• 里 - unit of distance equal to 0.5km; village; lane
• 剑 - sword, dagger, saber

Traditional characters:

• 手 - hand
• 裡 - unit of distance equal to 0.5km; village; lane
• 劍 - sword, dagger, saber