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删

shān

HSK 5 Character Traditional 刪

What 删 means

1. to delete

Example sentences

• 删除。
  Delete.
• 不要删评论。
  Don't delete the comments.
• 我删除了这个应用。
  Wǒ shānchú le zhège yìngyòng.
  I've deleted the app.
• 你现在可以删除它。
  You can delete that now.
• 从名单上删掉汤姆的名字。
  Cóng míngdān shàng shāndiào Tāngmǔ de míngzi.
  Delete Tom's name from the list.
• 从申请单中删除他的名字。
  Delete his name from the list of the applicants.

Words starting with 删

• 删除shān chúto delete; to cancel
• 删掉shān diàoto delete
• 删去shān qùto delete
• 删节shān jiéto abridge; to cut a text down to size for publication
• 删改shān gǎito edit; to modify; to alter (written material)
• 删减shān jiǎnto abridge (a text); to edit out (of a movie); to cut back (a budget, a curriculum)
• 删简压缩shān jiǎn yā suōto simplify and condense (a text); abridged
• 删剪shān jiǎnto cut (from a movie etc); to censor
• 删帖shān tiěto delete a forum post
• 删汰shān tài(literary) to eliminate; to delete

Words containing 删

• 侵删qīn shān(net slang) if this is an infringement of copyright, please notify me and I will remove it
• 增删zēng shānadd and delete
• 未删节版wèi shān jié bǎnunabridged edition; uncut edition

Characters built on 册

These share the phonetic component 册 (cè), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 珊shāncoral
• 姗shānused in 姗姗
• 跚shānused in 蹒跚

Characters that look like 删

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 制zhìsystem; to control; to regulate
• 网wǎngnet; web; network; to net; to catch with a net
• 刺cìthorn; sting; thrust
• 闹nàonoisy; cacophonous; to make noise
• 剁duòto chop up (meat etc); to chop off (sb's hand etc)
• 驸fùprince consort

Sounds the same

Read shān, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 山mountain; hill; (colloquial) small bundle of straw for silkworms to spin cocoons on
• 衫garment; jacket with open slits in place of sleeves
• 珊coral
• 杉China fir; Cunninghamia lanceolata; also pr. shā
• 扇to fan; to slap sb on the face
• 姗used in 姗姗
• 煽to fan into a flame; to incite
• 潸tearfully
• 跚used in 蹒跚
• 钐samarium (chemistry)
• 舢sampan
• 膻(old) a flock of sheep or goats; variant of 膻