Kanji

Level: N1 Strokes: 9

削

Meaning in English

plane, sharpen, whittle

Readings

Onyomi: サク Kunyomi: けず.る, はつ.る, そ.ぐ Romaji: saku / kezu.ru, hatsu.ru, so.gu

Stroke order

Animated kanji stroke order

削

Translations in other languages:

Portuguese aplainar, afiar, talhar

Spanish cepillar, afilar, tallar

Korean 대패질하다, 날카롭게 하다, 깎다

French raboter, affûter, tailler

Italian piallare, affilare, intagliare

German hobeln, schärfen, schnitzen

Indonesian meratakan, mengasah, mengukir

★ Vietnamese bào, mài, gọt

Thai ไส, ลับคม, เหลา

Related kanji

N2 副 fuku vice-, assistant, aide N1 剰 jou / amatsusae, ama.ri, ama.ru surplus, besides, par dessus le marché N3 列 retsu, re file, row, rank N1 刑 kei punish, penalty, sentence N3 割 katsu / wa.ru, wari, wa.ri, wa.reru, sa.ku proportion, comparatively, divide N1 創 sou, shou / tsuku.ru, haji.meru, kizu, kezu.shikeru genesis, wound, injury N2 刊 kan publish, carve, engrave N3 分 bun, fun, bu / wa.keru, wa.ke, wa.kareru, wa.karu, wa.katsu part, minute of time, segment N4 切 setsu, sai / ki.ru, -ki.ru, ki.ri, -ki.ri, -gi.ri, ki.reru, -ki.reru, ki.re, -ki.re, -gi.re cut, cutoff, be sharp

Words with this kanji

N1 削減 sakugen cut, reduction N2 削る kezuru to cut down little by little, to take a percentage N2 削除 sakujo elimination, deletion