削 — plane, sharpen, whittle

けずる削 plane

Grade S Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 9 strokes

U+524A Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #814 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #124 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

plane
sharpen
whittle
pare
shave

word

けず kezu Kun'yomi Kun'yomi (訓読み) — the native Japanese reading of this kanji. Used when the kanji appears alone or with okurigana (trailing hiragana).

削(けず) る kezuru to shave

さく saku On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

削(さく) 除(じょ) sakujo deletion 削(さく) 減(げん) sakugen reduction 添(てん) 削(さく) tensaku correction

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

しょう肖 resemblance

刂 knife (right form)

Open in Atlas

Kangxi Radical The Kangxi radicals are a set of 214 character components standardized in the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary. Every kanji is classified under one radical, used for dictionary lookup and character organization.

#18 刀 knife