削

削 — plane, sharpen, whittle

JLPT: JLPT N1
Strokes: 9
Taught in: Secondary school
Frequency: #814 most common

Readings

On'yomi came with the character from Chinese; kun'yomi is the native Japanese word it was borrowed for. A dot marks where okurigana takes over, a hyphen marks a prefix or suffix position.

On'yomi: さく saku
Kun'yomi: けず.る kezu.ru

はつ.る hatsu.ru

そ.ぐ so.gu

Example words for this kanji are being written.

Words that use 削

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