to shave or cut wood, stone, hair (the combining form is xin-)
also, to cut hair (and haircutting styles were linked to certain ethnicities)
See an image that represents xima in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).
In Mexico City in 1564, after a riot in response to rising tributes, Mexica and Tenochca were punished in public by being paraded on horseback, given 200 lashes, and having their heads shaved. Then they were sold into slavery for from two to five years and sent to other communities. (ca. 1582, México)
Nepācōc, neximalōc = People washed and shaved (themselves)
ninoxin = I shaved (myself)
ninoxima = I shave myself (nicxima I shave him)
Yva[n] ximaloz yhua[n] macuilpovalpa mecahuitecoz = será rapado y azotado cien veces, (ca. 1582, México)