删 — Chinese character
删
shān
to delete; to cut; to censor
- Pinyin
- shān
- Radical
- 18 ⼑ (Knife)
- Strokes
- 7
- Components
- 册 刂
- Formation
- ideographic — To cut 刂 out passages from a book 册
- Traditional
- 刪
Common words with 删
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 删除 (刪除) | shān chú | to delete; to cancel |
| 删减 (刪減) | shān jiǎn | to abridge (a text); to edit out (of a movie) |
| 删掉 (刪掉) | shān diào | to delete |
| 删去 (刪去) | shān qù | to delete |
| 删节 (刪節) | shān jié | to abridge; to cut a text down to size for publication |
| 删改 (刪改) | shān gǎi | to edit; to modify |
| 删帖 (刪帖) | shān tiě | to delete a forum post |
| 删剪 (刪剪) | shān jiǎn | to cut (from a movie etc); to censor |
| 增删 (增刪) | zēng shān | add and delete |
| 侵删 (侵刪) | qīn shān | (Internet slang) if this is an infringement of copyright, please notify me and I will remove it |
| 删汰 (刪汰) | shān tài | (literary) to eliminate; to delete |
| 删简压缩 (刪簡壓縮) | shān jiǎn yā suō | to simplify and condense (a text); abridged |
English words written with 删
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.