become bald, bare, wear out, waste away, little girl employed at a brothel
禿 centers on loss or absence of covering: becoming bald, bare, or worn out. The rare brothel-girl meaning is a historical application of the 'bare' idea.
禿 is thought to combine 禾 (grain) with 儿 (legs), possibly depicting grain stalks with bare, exposed lower parts, suggesting baldness or bareness.
Grain 禾 on top with legs 儿 below: imagine a field of grain where the lower stalks are bare and worn, like a bald head.
For トク, picture a bald monk named Toku meditating in a bare field: Toku -> トク, and his head is as bare as the worn grain stalks.
baldness; bald head
vulture; condor
to lose hair; to become bald
Old World vulture
bald head
shiny, bald head; person with a shiny, bald head
someone with hair combed in stripes across their bald spot
complete baldness
I; me
griffon vulture (Gyps fulvus)
children's hairstyle of short untied hair; child with short untied hair
bald head; balding head
to get blunt; to dull; to wear out
I strongly agree
Eurasian least shrew (Sorex minutissimus); lesser pygmy shrew
Himalayan mole (Euroscaptor micrura)
alopecia areata
worn-out brush
feather-tailed glider (Acrobates pygmaeus); feathertail glider; flying mouse; pygmy gliding possum
alopecia; loss of hair