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Meaning of 剃

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(Trad.: 薙)
Pinyin:
English Definition: shave; to weed; to shave
Chinese Definition:
①用刀刮去毛发:剃头。剃刀。剃度(佛教指给要出家的人剃去头发,使成为僧尼)。
Total strokes: 9; Radical:
Pictophonetic: indicates the sound; (knife) conveys the meaning.
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Example Words
剃头 tóu to have one's head shaved
剃刀 dāo razor
剃须刀 dāo shaver; razor
剃度 to take the tonsure; to shave the head; tonsure (shaved head of Buddhist monk)
剃光头 guāng tóu to shave the whole head clean; crushing defeat
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Example Sentences
1
We shaved them off for us.
2
Shave in the direction the hair grows, not against it.
3
He began shaving an Apple logo into the back of his head.
4
Surely they' d look ridiculous with a shaved head.
5
These groups do not shave men as part of the rite of marriage.