Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- tì
English
- shave
- to shave
- to shave
粵語
- 用利器除去身上嘅毛髮
Variants
Words containing 剃
- 剃鬚tai3 sou1
to shave (facial hair)
- 鬼剃頭gwai2 tai3 tau4
spot baldness (alopecia areata)
- 剃面tai3 min6
shaving (spoken)
- 剃度tai3 dou6
to take the tonsure
- 剃刀tai3 dou1
razor
- 剃眼眉tai3 ngaan5 mei4
(phrasal verb) to insult or to embarrass someone in public.
- 剃頭tai3 tau4
to have one's head shaved
- 剃毛tai3 mou4
- 險過剃頭him2 gwo3 tai3 tau4
describes a situation which is very dangerous; a close shave; a narrow escape
- 剃髮令tai3 faat3 ling6
the Qing order to all men to shave their heads but keep a queue, first ordered in 1646
- 剃刀門楣tai3 dou1 mun4 mei4
shaving more than one time, to refer too much levy
- 剃光頭tai3 gwong1 tau4
to shave the whole head clean
- 剃鬚刀tai3 sou1 dou1
shaver
- 剃鬚膏tai3 sou1 gou1
shaving cream
- 剃髮留辮tai3 faat3 lau4 bin1
to shave the head but keep the queue
- 切菜刀剃頭cit3 coi3 dou1 tai3 tau4
sandwich pun which means dangerous or risky; literally: to shave one's head with a chopper
- 明剃眼眉ming4 tai3 ngaan5 mei4
- 奧卡姆剃刀ou3 kaa1 mou5 tai3 dou1
Occam's razor
- 剃頭挑子一頭熱tai3 tau4 tiu1 zi2 jat1 tau4 jit6
lit. only one end of the barber's pole is hot (idiom)