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Kanji Detail for 削 - "to shave"

削

  • Meaning

    削 means "to shave." Also associated with knife, sheath.

    1. To shave - To scrape; to cut off.

    2. Knife - A small knife for erasing characters written on bamboo or wood.

    3. Sheath - The scabbard of a sword.

  • Words using 削

    • 削減 さくげん Listen cut; reduction; curtailment
    • 削除 さくじょ Listen deletion; elimination; erasure
    • 削り節 けずりぶし Listen flaked bonito
    • 削る けずる Listen to shave (wood, leather, etc.); to sharpen (e.g. pencil); to plane
    • 添削 てんさく Listen correction; looking over; touching up

  • Tattoo check: 削

    • Verified meaning: to shave
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Also carries these associations: knife, sheath

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • 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.

  • Onyomi

    tip

    saku(サク) サク

  • Kunyomi

    tip

    hatsu.ru(はつ-る) はつ-る

    kezu.ru(けず-る) けず-る

    so.gu(そ-ぐ) そ-ぐ

  • Strokes

    tip

    9 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    刀 刂 (katana・ritto)

  • Related Keywords

    to shave knife sheath scabbard scrape cut reduce carve pare peel diminish erode file grind thin whittle

Sentences including 削

  • Sharpen your pencil.

  • I'll look it over later.

  • Delete this sentence.

  • Please delete this sentence.

  • I sharpened a pencil with a knife.

  • Your pencils need sharpening.

  • The two companies are competing with each other.

  • This example sentence was deleted.

  • She pared down her expenditures.

  • My daily routine of English has been greatly reduced.

More kanji with the radical 刀 刂 (katana・ritto)

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