剔
tī HSK7

pick out

剔 tī
pick or scrape verb
to scrape meat from bones or remove debris from crevices like teeth

厨师熟练地把骨头上的肉剔干净。

chú​shī shú​liàn de bǎ gǔ​tou shàng de ròu tī gān​jìng.

The chef skillfully scraped the meat clean from the bones.

weed out verb
to select and remove undesirable or sub-standard items from a group

我们必须把这批货里的次品剔出来。

wǒ​men bì​xū bǎ zhè pī huò lǐ de cì​pǐn tī chu​lai.

We must pick out the defective items from this batch of goods.

Frequency
Character
Written text
3,156th most common 8.06 per million
Movie subtitles
2,632nd most common 6.66 per million appears in 4% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
1.25 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
1.24 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Strokes
10
Unicode
U+5254

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)