Usage of the character 剃
tì
剃
[鬀]
- variant of 剃 (tì)
tì
剃
[剃]
- to shave
tì
剃
[薙]
- shave
- to weed
tìdù
剃度
[剃度]
- to take the tonsure
- to shave the head
- tonsure (shaved head of Buddhist monk)
tìtóu
剃头
[剃頭]
- to have one's head shaved
tìdāo
剃刀
[剃刀]
- razor
tìxūdāo
剃须刀
[剃鬚刀]
- shaver
- razor
guǐtìtóu
鬼剃头
[鬼剃頭]
- spot baldness (alopecia areata)
tìguāngtóu
剃光头
[剃光頭]
- to shave the whole head clean
- crushing defeat
tìxūgāo
剃须膏
[剃鬚膏]
- shaving cream
tìfàlìng
剃发令
[剃髮令]
- the Qing order to all men to shave their heads but keep a queue, first ordered in 1646
tìfàliúbiàn
剃发留辫
[剃髮留辮]
- to shave the head but keep the queue
Aòkǎmǔtìdāo
奥卡姆剃刀
[奧卡姆剃刀]
- Occam's razor
tìtóutiāoziyītóurè
剃头挑子一头热
[剃頭挑子一頭熱]
- 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.)