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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
tī | ti1
English translation
pick (as teeth)
to pick out; to scrape off; picky

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Number of strokes

10

Traditional form

Contains the radical

dāo

Part of speech

Status morpheme / 状态语素 Zhuàngtài yǔsù

Learning hint

knife

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Type

pictophonetic

Positional decomposition

易刂

Semantic compound

dāo

Phonetic compound

Explanation

Phonosemantic compound. dāo represents the meaning and represents the sound.

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冬山 Dōng shān 如玉, 玉龙飞舞 fēi wǔ , 晶莹剔透, 玉树 Yù shù qióng zhī , 银装素裹.

Dongshan as jade, Yulong dancing, sparkling, Joan Yushu sticks, snow - wrapped.

根据 gēnjù 物理 wùlǐ shǎng de 理由 lǐyóu ,我们 wǒmen 总是 zǒngshì 剔除 tī chú líng 作为 zuòwéi 本征函数 hán shù .

We always reject zero as an eigenfunction on the ground of physics.

非常 fēicháng 挑剔 tiāoti , yīn xiē de 朋友 péngyou dōu 喜欢 xǐhuan gēn 一起 yīqǐ guàng jiē .

She's very fussy, so all her friends hate shopping with her.

de chī wán , Bié tài 挑剔 tiāoti le .

Eat up your fish and don't be so finicky.

hǎo de 苹果 píngguǒ 挑出来, huài de chū .

Choose the good apples and reject the bad ones.

Words with

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
挑剔 tiāoti picky挑剔 tiāoti
剔除 tī chú to reject剔除 tī chú
to weed out
剔牙 tī yá to pick one's teeth剔牙 tī yá
剔透 tī tòu pure and limpid剔透 tī tòu
玲珑剔透 líng lóng tī tòu exquisitely made玲瓏剔透

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Decomposition

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