削发 Save Create a free account to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 削髮 xuēfà ㄒㄩㄝ ㄈㄚˋ 男 女 to shave one's head fig. to become a monk or nun to take the tonsure Character by character 削(xuē)pare 发(fà)hair Sign up for a free account to save words and review them A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0