剃
Tap the pinyin to hear it
to shave
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 刀 +7
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 剃
- Common rank
- #2,790
- Unicode
- U+5243
Sound it out + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How to remember it
shave · Heisig RSH #2279
弟 younger brother + saber
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 剃
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 剃头挑子一头热 | lit. only one end of the barber's pole is hot (idiom); fig. one-sided enthusiasm; one part… | |
| 奥卡姆剃刀 | Occam's razor | |
| 剃光头 | to shave the whole head clean; crushing defeat | |
| 鬼剃头 | spot baldness (alopecia areata) | |
| 剃发令 | the Qing order to all men to shave their heads but keep a queue, first ordered in 1646 | |
| 剃头 | to have one's head shaved | |
| 剃度 | to take the tonsure; to shave the head; tonsure (shaved head of Buddhist monk) | |
| 剃发留辫 | to shave the head but keep the queue | |
| 剃须刀 | shaver; razor | |
| 剃刀 | razor | |
| 剃须膏 | shaving cream | |
| 剃须 | to shave (facial hair) |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 弟 — compare how they read.