Chinese English Dictionary Online

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Trad. 薙
  • shave
  • to weed
Trad. 鬀
  • variant of 剃[ti4]
  • to shave
  • to take the tonsure
  • to shave the head
  • tonsure (shaved head of Buddhist monk)
Trad. 剃頭
  • to have one's head shaved
Trad. 鬼剃頭
  • spot baldness (alopecia areata)
Trad. 剃光頭
  • to shave the whole head clean
  • crushing defeat
Trad. 剃髮令
  • the Qing order to all men to shave their heads but keep a queue, first ordered in 1646
Trad. 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.)

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