剔除

tīchú

verb HSK 7-9 #23,176

Meanings

1 to eliminate
2 to remove
3 to weed out

Characters

to pick out; to scrape

to remove; to eliminate

Examples

HSK 4

我们需要剔除不合格的产品。

Wǒmen xūyào tīchú bùhégé de chǎnpǐn.

We need to weed out the substandard products.

HSK 4

请把错误的数据剔除。

Qǐng bǎ cuòwù de shùjù tīchú.

Please remove the erroneous data.

Tips

usage

剔除 implies careful removal of unwanted elements from a group, like picking out bad items. More precise than 去掉.

Stroke Order

剔 tī

除 chú