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擿

tī

Character

What 擿 means

1. to select
2. to nitpick
3. to expose

Other readings

擿 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• zhìto scratch; old variant of {掷|zhì}

Sounds the same

Read tī, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 踢to kick; to play (e.g. soccer); (slang) butch (in a lesbian relationship)
• 梯(bound form) ladder; stairs
• 剔to scrape the meat from bones; to pick (teeth etc); to weed out
• 体used in 体己; Taiwan pr. tǐ
• 锑antimony (chemistry)
• 䴘used in 䴙䴘

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• How characters are built from components.
• How to learn Chinese characters.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read tī correctly.
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