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Mythic Mandarin

删 (shān): meaning and stroke order

删 (shān) means to delete.

删

Simplified
删
Traditional
刪
Pinyin
shān

Stroke order of 删

删

  • shān to delete
  • 7 strokes
  • Traditional form: 刪

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 删

  1. shān Traditional 刪
    • to delete

Radical and structure

删
Radical 刀 (Kangxi radical 18) · 7 strokes · 册 on the left, 刂 on the right

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

删 in our stories

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  • 回报社的路上,柯雨桐把原来的标题删掉了,换成了《街角的老杜,忙着呢》。

    huí bàoshè de lù shàng Kē Yǔtóng bǎ yuánlái de biāotí shān diào le huàn chéng le jiējiǎo de lǎo Dù máng zhe ne

    On the way back to the office, Ke Yutong deleted her original headline and replaced it with "Old Du on the Corner Is Busy".

    From the story Old Du on the corner HSK 6

Stories using 删

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).