剔出 (tī chū) — to pick out and remove; to eliminate; to delete (text, words)

Definition

剔出 means to pick out and remove unwanted items from a group — a list, a dataset, an article. It emphasizes deliberate selection and removal, stronger than simple 删除.

verb
to pick out and removeto eliminateto delete (text, words)

Examples

  • 剔出。
    Wǒ men xū yào cóng míng dān zhōng tī chū bù hé gé de rén.
    We need to eliminate unqualified people from the list.
  • 剔出。
    Biān jí bǎ zhè piān wén zhāng zhōng chóng fù de nèi róng dōu tī chū le.
    The editor deleted all the repeated content from this article.
  • 剔出。
    Tā zài shí yàn zhōng tī chū le yǒu wèn tí de shù jù.
    He eliminated the problematic data in the experiment.

Origin

Compound word
构词法gòucífǎ
补充bǔchōngVerb + complement

An action followed by its result or direction.

剔tīpick out
出chūout

剔 (pick out) + 出 (out) gives pick out and remove.

Characters in this word

Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
刀刀dāoknife
Sound part声符shēngfú
易
易yì剔tī
The sound has drifted apartThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

剔 combines 刀, a knife, with 易, which gives the character its sound.

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Two or more meaningful parts placed together so that their meanings combine into a new one.

出 combines 止 (foot) and 凵 (cave) to show a foot stepping out of a cave.

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