删

shān

to delete

book (册) + knife (刂) = delete

册 depicts bound bamboo strips — the ancient form of a book or document. A knife drawn through those strips removes what is written.

册+刂→删
册Bound bamboo strip bookSemantic
刂Knife (variant of 刀)Semantic

请把这个文件删掉。

qǐng bǎ zhè ge wén jiàn shān diào。

Please delete this file.

他把发出去的消息删了,但对方已经看到了。

tā bǎ fā chū qù de xiāo xi shān le,dàn duì fāng yǐ jīng kàn dào le。

He deleted the message he had sent, but the other person had already seen it.

Words with 删

删减

shān jiǎn

to abridge (a text)

删除

shān chú

to delete

侵删

qīn shān

(Internet slang) if this is an infringement of copyright, please notify me and I will remove it

删去

shān qù

to delete

删汰

shān tài

(literary) to eliminate; to delete

删节

shān jié

to abridge

删简压缩

shān jiǎn yā suō

to simplify and condense (a text)

删剪

shān jiǎn

to cut (from a movie etc)

删改

shān gǎi

to edit

删掉

shān diào

to delete

删帖

shān tiě

to delete a forum post

增删

zēng shān

add and delete

More characters with 册

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