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Chinese symbol for “razor”

剃刀
tì dāo
razor

The closest CC-CEDICT match for razor is 剃刀 (tì dāo), defined as: razor.

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Characters and stroke order

剃 tì
to shave
radical 18 ⼑ · 9 strokes
刀 dāo
knife; old coin; measure
radical 18 ⼑ · 2 strokes

Other Chinese words for “razor”

WordPinyinMeaning
刮胡刀 (刮鬍刀)guā hú dāorazor
剃须刀 (剃鬚刀)tì xū dāoshaver; razor

Related words

Other words that share a character with 剃刀.

WordPinyinMeaning
剃头 (剃頭)tì tóuto have one's head shaved
剃光头 (剃光頭)tì guāng tóuto shave the whole head clean; crushing defeat
剃度tì dùto take the tonsure; to shave the head
剃须刀 (剃鬚刀)tì xū dāoshaver; razor
剃须 (剃鬚)tì xūto shave (facial hair)
刀子dāo ziknife; measure word: 把 (bǎ)
剪刀jiǎn dāoscissors; measure word: 把 (bǎ)
刀剑 (刀劍)dāo jiànsword

See also: Japanese symbol for “razor”.

Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.