削

Information about character(s)

Radical: 刀
Radical Strokes: 2
Additional Strokes: 7
Total Strokes: 9

Pronunciation

Pinyin: qiào, xiāo, shào
Cantonese: soek3
JapaneseKun: KEZURU
JapaneseOn: SAKU SHOU
Korean: SAK
Vietnamese: tước

Dictionary definitions

Unicode: scrape off, pare, trim

CE-Dict: to reduce/to pare (away)/to cut (down)/Taiwan pr. [xue4]

21 Century bidirectional dictionary: 1.(used in forming compound words) to cut or pare
xiao
ㄒㄧㄠ
1.to pare or peel (with a knife)
2.to sharpen with a knife
3.filial

朗道漢英字典 - Lang Dao: chip; cut; pare; shaving; skive

懶蟲簡明漢英詞典: pare with a knife; chop; cut

湘雅醫學專業詞典: cut;cutting

說文解字 - Shuowen: 《刀部》削鞞也。一曰析也。从刀肖聲。

康熙字典文字版 【子集下】【刀字部】削
【唐韻】【正韻】息約切【集韻】思約切，𠀤相入聲。【說文】鞞也。从刀，肖聲。一曰析也。【徐曰】今人音笑。刀之匣也。又【玉篇】刻治也。【增韻】刮削也。【詩·大雅】削屢馮馮。【註】牆成而削治重復也。又小侵也。【書·君𨻰】無倚法以削。又弱也。【孟子】魯之削也滋甚。又奪除也。【禮·王制】君削以地。又器名。【周禮·冬官考工記】築氏爲削，長尺博寸，合六而成規。【註】今之書刀。【疏】古者未有紙筆，則以削刻字。至漢雖有紙筆，仍有書刀，是古之遺法也。又【集韻】仙妙切【正韻】蘇弔切，𠀤音笑。刀室也。【前漢·貨殖傳】質氏以酒削而鼎食。【註】師古曰：削謂刀劒室也。人有刀劒室，惡者爲酒濯，令更新也。【集韻】本作韒，或作鞘𤿨。又【集韻】【韻會】【正韻】𠀤所敎切，音稍。【周禮·天官】家削之賦。【註】二百里家削。【疏】家削之賦者，謂二百里之內地名削，其中有大夫采地，謂之家，故名家削。【集韻】本作𨛍，通作稍。又【集韻】七削切，音峭。削格，所以施羅綱也。又叶息七切，音悉。【蘇軾·榧子詩】𣂪爲君倚几，滑淨不容削。物微興不淺，此贈毋輕擲。

CF-Dict: racler, effacer/graver

Han-De-Dict: herabsetzen, ermäßigen (u.E.) (V)/schälen mit Messer (u.E.) (V)/schneiden, kürzen (u.E.) (V)