剔
tī
#3,150 most
frequent character
to scrape the meat from bones
Character breakdown
Source: Make Me a Hanzi.
剔 pairs 刂, a knife, as its meaning part with 易 yì for sound. It first meant 'to separate meat from bone,' then grew to 'to pick one’s teeth' and 'to weed out.' The sound matches only in the rhyme.
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