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guā to scrape / to blow / to shave / to plunder / to extort
to shave
shave / to weed
bào carpenter's plane / to plane (woodwork) / to shave off / to peel (with a potato peeler etc)
修面 xiū miàn to have a shave / to enhance the appearance of the face
剃头 tóu to have one's head shaved
刨冰 bào bīng shaved or crushed ice dessert or beverage
脱毛 tuō máo to lose hair or feathers / to molt / depilation / to shave
刮脸 guā liǎn to shave one's face
削发 xuē to shave one's head / fig. to become a monk or nun / to take the tonsure
剃度 to take the tonsure / to shave the head / tonsure (shaved head of Buddhist monk)
刀削面 dāo xiāo miàn knife-shaved noodles (pared or shaved into strips), a Shanxi specialty
锉冰 cuò bīng shaved ice dessert (Tw)
冰店 bīng diàn dessert parlor serving mainly cold sweets (esp. shaved ice) (Tw)
磨刀不误砍柴工 dāo kǎn chái gōng lit. sharpening the axe won't make the wood-splitting take longer (idiom) / fig. time invested in preparations is not lost / a beard well lathered is half shaved
刮掉 guā diào to scrape off / to shave off (whiskers etc) / (of the wind) to blow sth away
刮胡子 guā zi to shave
剃光头 guāng tóu to shave the whole head clean / crushing defeat
剃发令 lìng the Qing order to all men to shave their heads but keep a queue, first ordered in 1646
剃发留辫 liú biàn to shave the head but keep the queue


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