剔 tī to pick out
to pick out; picky
怎么记住“剔”: 易 easy + 刂 knife = to pick out. It looks easy until Grandma hands me a small knife and a whole fish full of bones to pick out.
部件结构
形声 · Meaning + sound
One part gives the meaning, the other gives the sound.
剔 = 易 easy + 刂 knife
- 易 easy sound
- 日 sun
- 勿 don’t
- 刂 knife meaning
It looks easy until Grandma hands me a small knife and a whole fish full of bones to pick out.
How it came to be
The knife gives the meaning and the part for easy the sound.
用法
- To pick out and remove, bones, defects, the unwanted: 剔骨 (tī gǔ) to debone, 剔除 (tīchú) to weed out/eliminate.
- 剔牙 (tī yá) = to pick one's teeth.
- 挑剔 (tiāoti) = picky/fault-finding: literally 'picking out' flaws in everything.