pick out

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
刂 meaning component

  Meaning component

dāo

  

knife

is a component form of .

易 sound component

  Sound component

  

easy

Evolution

剔 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
剔 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

pick out; scrape off; scrape meat; to scrape the meat from bones; to pick (teeth etc); to weed out

Most common words with 剔
Freq.
Word
Meaning

挑剔

picky

剔除

to reject

to weed out

剔牙

to pick one's teeth

剔透

pure and limpid