Keyword
scrape off
- plane
- sharpen
- whittle
- pare
- shave
- Frequency
- #814
- Strokes
- 9
- Grade
- 8
- JLPT (old)
- N1
- Heisig
- 124
Readings
サク67%
けず33%
Mnemonic
You are worthy of the knife, so you shave and scrape off the bark from the log.
Stroke order
Composed of
Used in vocabulary
削る
to shave (wood, leather, etc.); to sharpen (e.g. pencil); to plane; to whittle; to pare; to scrape off; to erode; to cut down (budget, expenses, staff, time, etc.); to curtail; to reduce; …
Godan verb
削ぐ
to chip (off); to shave off; to slice off; to cut off; to sharpen; to dampen (one's enthusiasm, interest, etc.); to reduce; to diminish; to weaken; to spoil
Godan verb
削がれる
to be dampened (of one's enthusiasm, enjoyment, etc.); to be reduced; to be weakened; to be spoiled
Ichidan verb
削ぎ切り
slicing (a vegetable, chicken breast, etc.) diagonally; cutting (diagonally) into thin slices; shaving into slivers
Noun