Talking Chinese<->English dictionary with pinyin, English definition, pronunciation, variants, stroke animation, stroke order image, and sample sentences.
| ID | Chinese | Trad. | Pinyin | PlainPY | English Definition | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID | Chinese | Trad. | Pinyin | PlainPY | English Definition | ||
| 1 | 剃 | 剃 | tì | ti4 | shave; to weed; to shave; variant of 剃 | ||
| 2 | 鬼剃头 | 鬼剃頭 | guǐ tì tóu | gui3 ti4 tou2 | spot baldness (alopecia areata) | ||
| 3 | 剃头挑子一头热 | 剃頭挑子一頭熱 | tì tóu tiāo zi yī tóu rè | ti4 tou2 tiao1 zi5 yi1 tou2 re4 | lit. only one end of the barber's pole is hot (idiom); fig. one-sided enthusiasm; one party is interested, but the other, not so much; (Note: In former days, street barbers carried their equipment on a pole, with tools and a stool at one end and a brazier at the other.) | ||
| 4 | 奥卡姆剃刀 | 奧卡姆剃刀 | ào kǎ mǔ tì dāo | Ao4 ka3 mu3 ti4 dao1 | Occam's razor | ||
| 5 | 剃刀 | 剃刀 | tì dāo | ti4 dao1 | razor | ||
| 6 | 剃度 | 剃度 | tì dù | ti4 du4 | to take the tonsure; to shave the head; tonsure (shaved head of Buddhist monk) | ||
| 7 | 剃发令 | 剃髮令 | tì fà lìng | ti4 fa4 ling4 | the Qing order to all men to shave their heads but keep a queue, first ordered in 1646 | ||
| 8 | 剃发留辫 | 剃髮留辮 | tì fà liú biàn | ti4 fa4 liu2 bian4 | to shave the head but keep the queue | ||
| 9 | 剃发修行 | 剃髮修行 | tì fà xiū xíng | ti4 fa4 xiu1 xing2 | to cut off one's hair and become a monk or nun (idiom) | ||
| 10 | 剃光头 | 剃光頭 | tì guāng tóu | ti4 guang1 tou2 | to shave the whole head clean; crushing defeat | ||
| 11 | 剃头 | 剃頭 | tì tóu | ti4 tou2 | to have one's head shaved | ||
| 12 | 剃须刀 | 剃鬚刀 | tì xū dāo | ti4 xu1 dao1 | shaver; razor | ||
| 13 | 剃须膏 | 剃鬚膏 | tì xū gāo | ti4 xu1 gao1 | shaving cream |
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