削 – plane, sharpen, whittle

9 strokesJōyō (secondary school)#814 in newspaper frequencyN2 vocabulary

The kanji 削 means plane, sharpen, whittle, pare, shave. Its on’yomi (Chinese-derived reading) is サク (saku); its kun’yomi (native Japanese reading) is けず.る、はつ.る、そ.ぐ (kezuru, hatsuru, sogu). It is written with 9 strokes, under radical 刀 (no. 18).

Stroke order

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Readings

Type	Reading	Romaji
On’yomi	サク	saku
Kun’yomi	けず.る	kezuru
Kun’yomi	はつ.る	hatsuru
Kun’yomi	そ.ぐ	sogu

A dot separates the kanji’s part from the okurigana (kana written after it), e.g. まな.ぶ → 学ぶ.

Radical and components

Radical: 刀 (Kangxi radical 18). Components: 刈・月・尚.

Words using 削

削るけずるto shave (wood, leather, etc.)削除さくじょdeletion削減さくげんcut

Example sentences

私はナイフで鉛筆を削った。

I sharpened a pencil with a knife.

Tatoeba #159215

彼の名前はリストから削られた。

He was struck off the list.

Tatoeba #116033

「百八といえば煩悩の数だ」「お兄ちゃんはどんな煩悩があるの？」「言ってもいいが、検閲削除になるぞ」

"Talking about 108, that's the number of worldly passions." "What worldly passions have you got then?" "I could say, but it'll get censored out."

Tatoeba #76973

Kanji with the same radical

分前制初判利別割切副券劇創則刊刑

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