 | 削 | ||
| scrape off, pare, trim | |||
| Radical | 刀刁刂𠚣 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Strokes (without radical) | 7 | Total Strokes | 9 |
| Mandarin reading |
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Cantonese reading | soek3 |
| Japanese on reading | saku shou | Japanese kun reading | kezuru |
| Korean reading | sak | Vietnamese reading | tước |
| 削 | [ ] to peel with a knife, to pare, to cut (a ball at tennis etc) |
| 削 | [ xuē ] to pare, to reduce, to remove, Taiwan pr. [xue4] |
| 削價 | [ xuē jià ] to cut down the price |
| 削尖 | [ jiān ] to sharpen |
| 削弱 | [ xuē ruò ] to weaken, to impair, to cripple |
| 削波 | [ xuē bō ] clipping (signal processing) |
| 削減 | [ xuē jiǎn ] to cut down, to reduce, to lower |
| 削球 | [ qiú ] (sport) to chop, to cut |
| 削瘦 | [ xuē shoù ] thin, lean, slender, skinny, (of cheeks) hollow |
| 削籍 | [ xuē jí ] (of an official) dismissal from office (old) |
| 削職 | [ xuē zhí ] demotion, to have one's job cut |
| 削職為民 | [ xuē zhí weí mín ] demotion to commoner (idiom) |
| 削足適履 | [ xuē zú shì lǚ ] to cut the feet to fit the shoes (idiom); to force sth to fit (as to a Procrustean bed), impractical or inelegant solution |
| 削鉛筆機 | [ qiān bǐ jī ] pencil sharpener (mechanical or electric) |
| 削除 | [ xuē chú ] to remove, to eliminate, to delete |
| 削髮 | [ xuē fà ] to shave one's head, fig. to become a monk or nun, to take the tonsure |
| ⇒ 下旋削球 | [ xià xuán qiú ] (golf, tennis) undercut |
| ⇒ 刀削麵 | [ daō miàn ] knife-shaved noodles (pared or shaved into strips), a Shanxi specialty |
| ⇒ 切削 | [ qiē ] to cut, cutting, machining |
| ⇒ 剝削 | [ bō xuē ] to exploit, exploitation |
| ⇒ 剝削者 | [ bō xuē zhě ] exploiter (of labor) |
| ⇒ 剝削階級 | [ bō xuē jiē jí ] exploiting class (in Marxist theory) |
| ⇒ 減削 | [ jiǎn xuē ] to reduce, to cut down |
| ⇒ 瘦削 | [ shoù xuē ] slim |
| ⇒ 被剝削者 | [ beì bō xuē zhě ] person suffering exploitation, the workers in Marxist theory |
| ⇒ 陡削 | [ doǔ ] precipitous |