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删减

shān jiǎn

2-character word Traditional 刪減

What 删减 means

1. to abridge (a text)
2. to edit out (of a movie)
3. to cut back (a budget, a curriculum)

The characters in 删减

• 删shānto delete
• 减jiǎnto lower; to decrease; to reduce

Sounds the same

Read shān jiǎn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 删剪to cut (from a movie etc); to censor

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