删 (shān): to delete
删 (shān) is a Chinese character meaning “to delete.” Classified as HSK Level 5 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 册 (structural) and 刂 (structural). It ranks #2618 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 删 to cut 刂 out passages from a book 册. Its radical form 刂 (knife) appears in many related characters such as 分 (fēn, to divide), 别 (bié, to leave), 到 (dào, to reach).
Definitions
- to delete
Etymology & Origin
ideographicTo cut 刂 out passages from a book 册
Decomposition: ⿰册刂 (layout: left-right)
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
HSK Vocabulary with 删
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 删节 | shān jié | to abridge |
| 删减 | shān jiǎn | to abridge (a text) |
| 删去 | shān qù | to delete |
| 删改 | shān gǎi | to edit |
| 未删节版 | wèi shān jié bǎn | unabridged edition |
| 删简压缩 | shān jiǎn yā suō | to simplify and condense (a text) |
| 增删 | zēng shān | add and delete |
| 删掉 | shān diào | to delete |
| 侵删 | qīn shān | (Internet slang) if this is an infringement of copyright, please notify me and I will remove it |
| 删剪 | shān jiǎn | to cut (from a movie etc) |
| 删汰 | shān tài | (literary) to eliminate |
| 删帖 | shān tiě | to delete a forum post |
删 appears in 13 compound words: 77 as the first character, 15 as the last, and 8 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Strongest Collocations
Characters that most frequently co-occur with 删 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Example Sentences
这个删字的意思与它的部首有关。
zhè gě shān zì de yì sī yú tā de bù shǒu yǒu guān .
The meaning of this character "删" is related to its radical.
有下载快删除!Chrome官方精选工具竟藏恶意代码...
yǒu xià zài kuài shān chú ! C h r o m e guān fāng jīng xuǎn gōng jù jìng zàng è yì dài mǎ . . .
Delete it immediately if you've downloaded it! Malicious code found in Chrome's official recommended tools...
杨偲泳不满《夜王》性感戏份被删 凭歌寄意表达心声
yáng 偲 yǒng bù mǎn yè wáng xìng gǎn xì fèn bèi shān píng gē jì yì biǎo dá xīn shēng
Yang Siyong was dissatisfied with the deletion of the sexy scene of "Night King" and expressed his heart with songs
...APL.US)和亚马逊(AMZN.US)删除反竞争条款耗时过长
. . . A P L . U S ) hé yà mǎ xùn ( A M Z N . U S ) shān chú fǎn jìng zhēng tiáo kuǎn hào shí guò cháng
... APL. US) and Amazon (AMZN. US) took too long to remove anti-competitive clauses
夜王—杨偲泳性感镜头疑遭刻意删减 公开绝密福利照凭歌寄意回应
yè wáng — yáng 偲 yǒng xìng gǎn jìng tóu yí zāo kè yì shān jiǎn gōng kāi jué mì fú lì zhào píng gē jì yì huí yīng
Night King - Yang Siyong's sexy footage is suspected of being deliberately deleted, and the public top-secret welfare photos respond with songs
...时中断疑因 AI 代理工具 Kiro 误删整个环境
. . . shí zhōng duàn yí yīn A I dài lǐ gōng jù K i r o wù shān zhěng gè huán jìng
... The interruption is suspected to be due to the AI agent tool Kiro accidentally deleting the entire environment
你知道怎么恢复已删除的文件吗？
Nǐ zhīdào zěnme huīfù yǐ shānchú de wénjiàn ma?
Do you know how to recover a deleted file?
他把他的那段话从磁带里删除了。
Tā bǎ tā de nèi duàn huà cóng cídài lǐ shānchú le.
He erased his speech from the tape.
麻烦你把付了钱的人的名字删掉。
Máfan nǐ bǎ fù le qián de rén de míngzi shāndiào.
Cross off the names of the people who have paid their dues.
你可以删去书里面的最后一章。
Nǐ kěyǐ shānqù shū lǐmiàn de zuì hòu yī zhāng.
You can omit the last chapter of the book.
Character Family
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