削

Stroke order

削 (Kangxi radical 18, 刀+7, 9 strokes, cangjie input 火月中弓 (FBLN), four-corner 9220₀, composition ⿰肖刂)

• 䌃 箾 萷 揱 𠸑 𣸛 𠠄 𡹺 𦋞 𣕇 𦂗 𨨺 𪃅

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 140, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2000
• Dae Jaweon: page 317, character 11
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 341, character 2
• Unihan data for U+524A

Historical forms of the character 削
Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Chu slip and silk script	Small seal script

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *slewɢ) : phonetic 肖 (OC *slew, *slews) + semantic 刂.

削

1. to pare with a knife; to peel with a knife; to scrape off the surface; to slice
2. to divide; to split; to separate
3. ^⁜ to reduce; to cut down
4. ^⁜ to weaken
5. ^⁜ to rob; to expropriate; to plunder
6. ^⁜ (literary or Taiwanese Hokkien) to delete; to remove; to cut out
7. (table tennis) to slice (the ball)
8. (ideophonic) steep (as if sliced); precipitous; sheer
9. (ideophonic) emaciated; scraggy; slender
10. (historical) writing knife
11. (historical) thin slips of wood used for writing; letters
12. (Cantonese) skinny; lean
13. (Cantonese) to hurt (the stomach)
14. (Hokkien) to mock; to ridicule; to have a dig at someone (to embarrass someone)
15. (Xiamen Hokkien) to remove fat, etc. from a body organ (of food or beverage)
16. (Xiamen Hokkien) to damage the spleen, stomach, etc. (of food or beverage)
17. (Taiwanese Hokkien) to compete; to fight

• (to reduce):

• (to weaken):

• (to remove):

• (to plunder):

• (to mock):

• (to remove fat, to damage the spleen): (Hokkien) 剾／𠛅 (khau)

Use 剝／剥 (bāo) for peeling something with one's hands, like a tangerine. Use 削 (xiāo) for peeling something with a knife or peeler, like a potato.

削

1. Original form of 鞘 (qiào, “sword sheath”).

削

1. (historical) fief within three hundred li from the state capital

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. plane, whittle

From Middle Chinese 削 (MC sjak):

• Go-on: さく (saku, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: しゃく (shaku)

From Middle Chinese; compare Mandarin 削 (qiào, xiào):

• Go-on: しょう (shō)^{←せう (seu, historical)}
• Kan-on: しょう (shō)^{←せう (seu, historical)}

From native Japanese roots:

• Kun: けずる (kezuru, 削る, Jōyō)^{←けづる (keduru, 削る, historical)}; そぐ (sogu, 削ぐ); そげる (sogeru, 削げる)^{←そぐ (sogu, 削ぐ, historical)}; はつる (hatsuru, 削る)

From Middle Chinese 削 (MC sjak).

Wikisource 削 (eumhun 깎을 삭 (kkakkeul sak))

1. Hanja form^? of 삭 (“cut”).

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

削: Hán Nôm readings: tước, tược, tướt, tượt

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