shave

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
刂 meaning component

  Meaning component

dāo

  

knife

is a component form of .

弟 sound component

  Sound component

  

younger brother

Definitions

 

shave; to shave

() 

variant of [tì]

() 

to weed

Most common words with 剃
Freq.
Word
Meaning

shave

剃刀

razor

剃须刀

shaver

剃头

to have one's head shaved

剃度

to take the tonsure

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 4.2127% of movies

2473rd most common character in movies

3289th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Unicode

U+5243


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