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Chinese symbol for “abridged”

删简压缩
shān jiǎn yā suō
Traditional: 刪簡壓縮
to simplify and condense (a text); abridged

The closest CC-CEDICT match for abridged is 删简压缩 (shān jiǎn yā suō), defined as: to simplify and condense (a text); abridged.

Before using these characters for a tattoo, check them with a native speaker. Dictionary words often have several meanings, and the right choice depends on context.

Characters and stroke order

删 shān
to delete; to cut; to censor
radical 18 ⼑ · 7 strokes
简 jiǎn
simple, succinct, terse; a letter
radical 118 ⽵ · 13 strokes
压 yā
press; oppress; crush; pressure
radical 27 ⼚ · 6 strokes
缩 suō
to withdraw, to shrink, to pull back; abbreviation
radical 120 ⽷ · 14 strokes

Traditional forms

Related words

Other words that share a character with 删简压缩.

WordPinyinMeaning
删除 (刪除)shān chúto delete; to cancel
删减 (刪減)shān jiǎnto abridge (a text); to edit out (of a movie)
删掉 (刪掉)shān diàoto delete
删去 (刪去)shān qùto delete
删节 (刪節)shān jiéto abridge; to cut a text down to size for publication
删改 (刪改)shān gǎito edit; to modify
简单 (簡單)jiǎn dānsimple; not complicated
简直 (簡直)jiǎn zhísimply; really
压力 (壓力)yā lìpressure
缩短 (縮短)suō duǎnto shorten; to reduce; to curtail

See also: Japanese symbol for “abridged”.

Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.

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