剃
to shave
9 strokes
Dict coverage rank #2,790 U+5243
How 剃 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
刂 (semantic, “knife”) + 弟 (phonetic, dì)
How to remember it
shave · Heisig RSH #2279
弟 younger brother + saber
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 弟
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 弟 (dì) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 弟 sound component | dì | young brother, junior |
| 梯 | tī | ladder, steps, stairs |
| 递 | dì | to deliver, to hand over; substitute |
| 涕 | tì | tears; mucus |
| 鹈 | tí | pelican |
| 睇 | dì | to glance, to look, to stare |
| 娣 | dì | younger sister; younger brother's wife |
| 绨 | tí | coarse pongee, heavy silk |
| 锑 | tī | antimony |
Words containing 剃
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 剃头挑子一头热 | tì tóu tiāo zi yī tóu rè | lit. only one end of the barber's pole is hot (idiom); fig. one-sided enthusiasm; one part… |
| 奥卡姆剃刀 | Ào kǎ mǔ tì dāo | Occam's razor |
| 剃光头 | tì guāng tóu | to shave the whole head clean; crushing defeat |
| 鬼剃头 | guǐ tì tóu | spot baldness (alopecia areata) |
| 剃发令 | tì fà lìng | the Qing order to all men to shave their heads but keep a queue, first ordered in 1646 |
| 剃头 | tì tóu | to have one's head shaved |
| 剃度 | tì dù | to take the tonsure; to shave the head; tonsure (shaved head of Buddhist monk) |
| 剃发留辫 | tì fà liú biàn | to shave the head but keep the queue |
| 剃须刀 | tì xū dāo | shaver; razor |
| 剃刀 | tì dāo | razor |
| 剃须膏 | tì xū gāo | shaving cream |
| 剃须 | tì xū | to shave (facial hair) |