tī
pick out
Phonosemantic compound. 刂 represents the meaning and 易 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
tī
pick out; scrape off; scrape meat; to scrape the meat from bones; to pick (teeth etc); to weed out
Most common words with 剔
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
picky | ||
to reject | ||
to weed out | ||
to pick one's teeth | ||
pure and limpid |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*l̥ˤek | thek | tī | cut (v.) |
*l̥ˤek-s | thejH | tì | shave |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 4.2768% of movies
2632nd most common character in movies
3156th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Unicode | U+5254 |
Shuowen | “剔，解骨也。从刀，易聲。” |
Sources
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