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削
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削 (plane, sharpen, whittle, pare)

  • JLPT N1
  • 9 strokes
  • Secondary (Jōyō)
  • Radical 刀
  • #814 most frequent

Readings

On'yomi 音読み
サク
Kun'yomi 訓読み
けず.るはつ.るそ.ぐ

Example words & Vocabulary

削減さくげん
cut, reduction, curtailment
削除さくじょ
elimination,cancellation,deletion,erasure
削るけずる
to shave, to whittle, to plane, to cut down, to reduce
添削てんさく
correction

Example sentences 3

鉛筆えんぴつを削けずりなさい。

Sharpen your pencil.

君きみの鉛筆えんぴつは削けずる必要ひつようがある。

Your pencils need sharpening.

私わたしはナイフで鉛筆えんぴつを削けずった。

I sharpened a pencil with a knife.

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