剔除

tīchú

verb HSK 7 #23,176

Meanings

1 to eliminate
2 to remove
3 to weed out

Characters

to pick out; to scrape

to remove; to eliminate

Examples

我们需要剔除不合格的产品。

Wǒmen xūyào tīchú bù hégé de chǎnpǐn.

We need to weed out the substandard products.

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