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剔

Mandarin · pinyin tī

to scrape the meat from bones
to pick (teeth etc)
to weed out

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剔: tī · pick out; scrape off; scrape meat

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1 · ti1

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

tai3 · tik1

Cantonese word readings for 剔. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

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character · Etymology 1

to pick meat from bones
to pick (with a pointed instrument); to scrape
to pick out; to weed out
(dialectal) to pick; to choose

character · Etymology 2

(alt-of, alternative) alternative form of 剃 (tì, “to shave”)

character · Etymology 3

(Cantonese) tick; checkmark
(Cantonese) to tick; to put a checkmark
(Cantonese) to take (attendance)

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