Interestingly, owing to the bi-syllabic structure lexicon formation of Modern Chinese, both the monosyllabic lexicon xīu and jiǎn could combine into a bi-syllabic lexicon xīu jiǎn to denote specifically the cutting of a small part off something especially to make it neat using scissors.
the above-mentioned 3 lexical features in the denotational dimension distinguish the subtle nuances of the semantic meaning of each of the synonymous verbs respectively, though with some occasional overlap among these features.