剃

to shave

shave / to weed

variant of 剃[ti4]

Kangxi radical 18 (刀[dao1]) as a vertical side element / see also 立刀旁[li4 dao1 pang2] / see also 側刀旁|侧刀旁[ce4 dao1 pang2]

younger brother / junior male / I (modest word in letter)

variant of 悌[ti4]

razor

shaver / razor

to have one's head shaved

to take the tonsure / to shave the head / tonsure (shaved head of Buddhist monk)

shaving cream

Occam's razor

to shave the whole head clean / crushing defeat

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.)

the Qing order to all men to shave their heads but keep a queue, first ordered in 1646

to shave the head but keep the queue