Chinese symbol for “delete”
删除
shān chú
Traditional: 刪除
to delete; to cancel
The closest CC-CEDICT match for delete is 删除 (shān chú), defined as: to delete; to cancel.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “delete”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 删 (刪) | shān | to delete |
| 删掉 (刪掉) | shān diào | to delete |
| 删去 (刪去) | shān qù | to delete |
| 省 | shěng | to save; to economize; to be frugal; to omit; to delete; to leave out |
| 去掉 | qù diào | to get rid of; to exclude |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 删除.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 除了 | chú le | apart from; besides; in addition to (used to exclude, as in 除了他，誰也沒來|除了他，谁也没来[chu2 le5 ta1 , shei2 ye3 mei2 lai2] "apart from him, nobody ca |
| 废除 (廢除) | fèi chú | to abolish; to abrogate |
| 解除 | jiě chú | to remove; to sack |
See also: Japanese symbol for “delete”.
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.