削
削 — Plane
plane, sharpen, whittle, pare, shave
On’yomiサク (saku)
Kun’yomiけずる (kezuru)
Kun’yomiはつる (hatsuru)
Kun’yomiそぐ (sogu)
Stroke order (9 strokes)
Watch the strokes draw themselves in the correct order — numbers mark where each stroke starts. Diagram from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA).
Common words using 削
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 削減 | さくげん sakugen | cut; reduction; curtailment |
| 掘削 | くっさく kussaku | digging out; excavation |
| 削除 | さくじょ sakujo | deletion; elimination; erasure |
| 削り節 | けずりぶし kezuribushi | flaked bonito |
| 削る | けずる kezuru | to shave (wood, leather, etc.); to sharpen (e.g. pencil); to plane |
| 添削 | てんさく tensaku | correction; looking over; touching up |
Study notes
削 is a JLPT N1 kanji written with 9 strokes. It is taught at secondary-school level in Japan. Ranked #814 of the 2,500 most frequent kanji in newspapers. On’yomi (音読み) are Chinese-derived readings mostly used in compound words; kun’yomi (訓読み) are native Japanese readings, with any highlighted part written in hiragana after the kanji (okurigana).
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