shān

to cut

To cut  out passages from a book 

Components
册 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

book

刂 meaning component

  Meaning component

dāo

  

knife

Evolution

删 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
删 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

() 

shān

to cut; delete, erase; to geld; to delete

Most common words with 删
Freq.
Word
Meaning

to delete

删除

to delete

删减

to abridge (a text)

删去

to delete

删节

to abridge

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 5.3660% of movies

2337th most common character in movies

2780th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Traditional

Unicode

U+5220

Shuowen

“刪,剟也。从刀、冊。冊,書也。”


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