Vita:削

Parts

• 削 118 plane
  • 肖 114 spark (resemblance, candle)
    • 小 105 small (little)
      • ⼂ * drop (a drop of, drop of, eye-dropper)
      • ⼂ * drop (a drop of, drop of, eye-dropper)
      • ⼂ * drop (a drop of, drop of, eye-dropper)
    • 月 13 flesh (month, meat, moon, part of the body)
  • ⺉ * saber (sabre)
    • 刀 83 sword (dagger)
    • ⊖ * something taken away

KANJIDIC Entry

• 削 3A6F U524a B18 G8 S9 F814 N690 V488 H1448 DK972 L118 K1453 DO1164 MN2000X MP2.0269 E1298 IN1611 DJ1320 DG195 P1-7-2 I2f7.4 Q9220.0 DR1043 Yxue1 Yxiao1 Yxue4 Wsag サク けず.る はつ.る そ.ぐ T1 げ {plane} {sharpen} {whittle} {pare}

EDICT Entries

• 掘削 [くっさく] / (n,vs) digging out / excavation / (P) /
• 削り節 [けずりぶし] / (n) flaked bonito / (P) /
• 削る [けずる] / (v5r) (1) to shave (wood or leather) / to sharpen / to plane / to whittle / to pare / to scrape off / (2) to cross out / to reduce / to curtail / to remove / to erase / (P) /
• 削減 [さくげん] / (n,vs) cut / reduction / curtailment / (P) /
• 削除 [さくじょ] / (n,vs) elimination / cancellation / deletion / erasure / (P) /
• 添削 [てんさく] / (n,vs) correction / (P) /

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Meta

1. Frequency: 1794 out of 9933.

Decomposition

Once

• 削 => 肖, 刂

Radical

• 削 => ⺌ (small) , 月 (moon) , 刂 (knife)

Graphical

• 削 => 丨,丷,冂,二,亅,丨

Pinyin & Meaning

1. xiao1 - to scrape
2. xue1 - to reduce/to pare (away)/to cut (down)/Taiwan pr. [xue4]

Pronunciation Clues

1. Pronunciation clue for 削 (xiao1): The component 肖 is pronounced as 'xiao4'.
2. Pronunciation clue for 削 (xue1): The component 肖 is pronounced as 'xiao4'.
3. Pronunciation clue for 削 (xue1): The component 月 is pronounced as 'yue4'.

Example Words

High Frequency

• 削

Medium Frequency

• 削弱
• 削减 (削減)
• 剥削 (剝削)

Appears In

• 削 also appears in:
• 箾