Kanji Detail for 翦 - "arrow feather, cut, shave, destroy"

翦

Non-Jōyō Kanji

Meaning
翦 means "arrow feather, cut, shave, destroy."
1. Arrow feather - The fletching of an arrow.
2. Cut - To trim; to clip with scissors.
3. Shave - To pare; to whittle.
4. Destroy - To annihilate.
Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:

KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

scissors; cut; clip; annihilate

Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

scissors; cut, clip; annihilate

CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

surname Jian

Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

scissors; to cut, to clip; to annihilate

XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

Scissors. Commonly written as 剪. | To cut evenly. Meaning to cut off with scissors. (Book of Odes) "Do not trim, do not cut." | All removal is called 翦. Such as saying 翦滅 (annihilate).
Onyomi

sen(せん)
Kunyomi

ki.ru(きる)
Strokes

15 strokes
Radical

羽 (hane)
Related Keywords
arrow feather fletching cut trim clip scissors shave pare whittle destroy annihilate