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Kanji Detail for 削 - "shave, scrape, delete"
削
- Meaning
削 means "shave, scrape, delete."
To shave - To scrape; to cut off.
Knife - A small knife for erasing characters written on bamboo or wood.
Sheath - The scabbard of a sword.
- Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
plane; sharpen; whittle; pare; shave
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
scrape off, pare, trim
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
to peel with a knife; to pare; to cut (a ball at tennis etc)
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
to pare, to scrape, to trim
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
To scrape and shave. Passing a blade flat across is called 刮; passing it at an angle is called 削. | To strip away. Such as stripping one's office is called 削職; stripping one's land is called 削地. | A tool name. In Han called 書刀. In ancient times, bamboo slips were used. When alterations were needed, they were scraped away. Like Confucius writing the Spring and Autumn Annals: "writing what should be written, deleting what should be deleted." Today, revising text is called 筆削, originating from this. | Sharp and pointed things are called 削, meaning as if cut with a knife. Describing a person as thin and small is called 瘦削.
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