Chinese Character Wiki

削

xuē, xiāo

scrape off

Phonosemantic compound. 刂 represents the meaning and 肖 represents the sound.

Components
刂 meaning component

刂  Meaning component

dāo

  

knife

刂 is a component form of 刀.

肖 sound component

肖  Sound component

xiào, xiāo

  

look like

Evolution

削 Seal script Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
削 Seal script Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
削 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
削 Clerical script Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Clerical script

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
削 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

削  

xuē

scrape off, pare, trim; to reduce; to remove; Taiwan pr. [xuè]

削  

xiāo

to peel with a knife; to pare; to cut (a ball at tennis etc)

Most common words with 削
Freq.
Word
Meaning

削

to pare

削减

to cut down

削弱

to weaken

剥削

to exploit

切削

to cut

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[sˤ]rewk-s

sraewH

shào

zone near the capital

*[s]ewk

sjak

xiāo

scrape, pare

*[s]ewk-s

sjewH

xiào

scrape, pare


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 5.4942% of movies

2443rd most common character in movies

1794th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Unicode

U+524A

Shuowen

“削，鞞也。一曰析也。从刀，肖聲。”


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