剔

剔 (Kangxi radical 18, 刀+8, 10 strokes, cangjie input 日竹中弓 (AHLN), four-corner 6220₀, composition ⿰易刂)

• 𢱦, 𨲞, 𩮜

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 140, character 35
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2031
• Dae Jaweon: page 320, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 344, character 6
• Unihan data for U+5254

Historical forms of the character 剔
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *l̥ʰeːɡ) : phonetic 易 (OC *leːɡs, *leɡ) + semantic 刀 (“knife”).

剔

1. to pick meat from bones
2. to pick (with a pointed instrument); to scrape
3. to pick out; to weed out
4. (dialectal) to pick; to choose

剔

1. Alternative form of 剃 (tì, “to shave”)

• “剔”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Borrowed from English tick (Cheung, 2007, page 219).

"to take (attendance)"

Eggcorn of take via homophony between tick and take.

• tick

剔 (Cantonese)

1. tick; checkmark
2. to tick; to put a checkmark
3. to take (attendance)

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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• On (unclassified): てき (teki); てい (tei)
• Kun: えぐる (eguru); そる (soru)

剔(てき) • (teki) 

1. cutting

剔 (eum 척 (cheok))

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剔: Hán Nôm readings: dịch, tích

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