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削

xuē

HSK 6 Character

What 削 means

1. to pare
2. to reduce
3. to remove
4. Taiwan pr. xuè

Other readings

削 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• xiāoto peel with a knife; to pare; to cut (a ball at tennis etc)

Example sentences

• 将苹果削皮。
  Peel the apple.
• 我给苹果削皮。
  I peeled an apple.
• 帮我削一下土豆。
  Bāng wǒ xiāo yīxià tǔdòu.
  Help me peel the potatoes.
• 汤姆将苹果削皮。
  Tom peeled the apples.
• 我在削芹菜和土豆。
  Wǒ zài xiāo qíncài hé tǔdòu.
  I'm peeling the celery and the potatoes.
• 他给她的苹果削皮。
  He peels her apple.

Words starting with 削

• 削弱xuē ruòto weaken; to impair; to cripple
• 削减xuē jiǎnto cut down; to reduce; to lower
• 削价xuē jiàto cut down the price
• 削波xuē bōclipping (signal processing)
• 削球xiāo qiú(sport) to chop; to cut
• 削籍xuē jí(of an official) dismissal from office (old)
• 削职xuē zhídemotion; to have one's job cut
• 削除xuē chúto remove; to eliminate; to delete
• 削发xuē fàto shave one's head; fig. to become a monk or nun; to take the tonsure
• 削职为民xuē zhí wéi míndemotion to commoner (idiom)
• 削足适履xuē zú shì lǚto cut the feet to fit the shoes (idiom); to force sth to fit (as to a Procrustean bed)…
• 削尖xiāo jiānto sharpen
• 削铅笔xiāo qiān bǐto sharpen a pencil
• 削铅笔机xiāo qiān bǐ jīpencil sharpener (mechanical or electric)
• 削瘦xuē shòuthin; lean; slender

Words containing 削

• 剥削bō xuēto exploit; exploitation
• 瘦削shòu xuēslim
• 切削qiē xiāoto cut; cutting; machining
• 减削jiǎn xuēto reduce; to cut down
• 剥削者bō xuē zhěexploiter (of labor)
• 剥削阶级bō xuē jiē jíexploiting class (in Marxist theory)
• 被剥削者bèi bō xuē zhěperson suffering exploitation; the workers in Marxist theory
• 刀削面dāo xiāo miànknife-shaved noodles (pared or shaved into strips), a Shanxi specialty
• 下旋削球xià xuán xiāo qiú(golf, tennis) undercut
• 陡削dǒu xiāoprecipitous

Characters that look like 削

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

• 到dàoto reach; to arrive; to leave for; to go to; to (a place); until (a time); up to (a point)
• 刹chàBuddhist monastery, temple or shrine (abbr. for 刹多罗
• 剃tìto shave
• 荆jīngchaste tree or its berry (Vitex agnus-castus); (literary) cane or switch made from a…
• 剌làperverse; unreasonable; absurd
• 剐guǎcut off the flesh as punishment

Sounds the same

Read xuē, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 薛wormwood like grass (classical)
• 靴boots