A Chinese martial arts knife resembling two crossed crescents with all outward facing edges sharpened, and a handle on an inside arc of one of the crescents. The blade allows punching, slashing, and stabbing, as well as using the outward points as guards for defence to catch incoming weapons.
A knife which uses deer horn as the material for the handle
Related
Similar words
yuet
Origin
deer horn + knife From the shape of the knife resembling deer horns or deer antlers.
deer horn + knife From the material used to build the scales of the knife
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