# 剔除 (tīchú)

In Mandarin Chinese, 剔除 (tīchú) means “to weed out; to remove; to reject”. It is part of the HSK 7–9 vocabulary list in the official HSK 3.0 standard.

- Meaning: to weed out; to remove; to reject
- Pinyin: tīchú (ti1 chu2)
- HSK 3.0 · Level 7–9

## Examples

- 我们需要先把坏苹果剔除掉。
  Wǒmen xūyào xiān bǎ huài píngguǒ tīchú diào.
  We need to remove the bad apples first.

## Characters

- 剔 (tī): to scrape the meat from bones; to pick (teeth etc)
- [除](https://hanziro.com/word/chu-remove/) (chú): to remove; except for

https://hanziro.com/word/ti-chu-weed-out/

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