U+5243 "剃" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
U+5243 "剃" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means to shave, to cut, or to scrape off hair or other surface material, often used in the context of shaving one's head or beard. It is composed of a knife radical on the right, indicating an action involving cutting, and a phonetic component on the left that hints at its pronunciation, which is "tì" in Mandarin Chinese. This character frequently appears in daily vocabulary related to grooming, such as in the term "剃须" meaning to shave a beard, or in Buddhist contexts where "剃度" refers to the tonsure ceremony for monks renouncing worldly attachments. As part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideograph block, it is shared among these languages with similar meanings, though its usage may vary slightly in Japanese and Korean, where it also denotes shaving or trimming.