剃 — Chinese character
剃
tì
to shave
- Pinyin
- tì
- Radical
- 18 ⼑ (Knife)
- Strokes
- 9
- Components
- 弟 刂
- Formation
- pictophonetic — knife; meaning component 刂; sound component 弟
- Japanese
- 剃 as a kanji
Common words with 剃
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 剃头 (剃頭) | tì tóu | to have one's head shaved |
| 剃刀 | tì dāo | razor |
| 剃光头 (剃光頭) | tì guāng tóu | to shave the whole head clean; crushing defeat |
| 剃度 | tì dù | to take the tonsure; to shave the head |
| 剃须刀 (剃鬚刀) | tì xū dāo | shaver; razor |
| 剃须 (剃鬚) | tì xū | to shave (facial hair) |
| 剃发令 (剃髮令) | tì fà lìng | the Qing order to all men to shave their heads but keep a queue, first ordered in 1646 |
| 剃发留辫 (剃髮留辮) | tì fà liú biàn | to shave the head but keep the queue |
| 剃须膏 (剃鬚膏) | tì xū gāo | shaving cream |
| 鬼剃头 (鬼剃頭) | guǐ tì tóu | spot baldness (alopecia areata) |
English words written with 剃
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.