刪

See also: 删

刪	U+522A, 刪 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-522A

← 利
[U+5229]

CJK Unified Ideographs

别 →
[U+522B]

Translingual

Han character

刪 (Kangxi radical 18, 刀+5, 7 strokes, cangjie input 月廿中弓 (BTLN), four-corner 7240₀, composition ⿰冊刂)

to cut
delete, erase
to geld

Derived characters

䈀

References

Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 138, character 28
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1917
Dae Jaweon: page 311, character 6
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 328, character 12
Unihan data for U+522A

Chinese

trad.		刪/删
simp.		删

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 刪
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (删) (Zhengzhang, 2003)

	Old Chinese
珊	*slaːn
跚	*slaːn
姗	*slaːn
删	*sraːn
栅	sʰraːɡ, sʰreːɡ, *sraːns

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *sraːn): phonetic 冊 (OC *sʰreːɡ) + semantic 刀 (“knife”).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): shān (shan¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄕㄢ
Cantonese (Jyutping): saan¹
Hakka
(Sixian, PFS): sân

(Hailu, HRS): san^ˋ

(Meixian, Guangdong): san¹
Eastern Min (BUC): săng
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): sang¹
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): san

(Teochew, Peng'im): sang¹
Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ¹se

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: shān
  - Zhuyin: ㄕㄢ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: shan
  - Wade–Giles: shan¹
  - Yale: shān
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shan
  - Palladius: шань (šanʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂän⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: saan¹
  - Yale: sāan
  - Cantonese Pinyin: saan¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: san¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /saːn⁵⁵/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: sân
  - Hakka Romanization System: san^ˊ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: san¹
  - Sinological IPA: /san²⁴/
- (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
  - Hakka Romanization System: san^ˋ
  - Sinological IPA: /san⁵³/
- (Meixian)
  - Guangdong: san¹
  - Sinological IPA: /san⁴⁴/
Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: săng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /saŋ⁵⁵/
Puxian Min
- (Putian, Jiangkou, Nanri)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: sang¹
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: sang
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬaŋ⁵³³/
- (Xianyou, Fengting)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: sang¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬaŋ⁵⁴⁴/
- (Youyang)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: sang¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /θaŋ⁵⁴⁴/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: san
  - Tâi-lô: san
  - Phofsit Daibuun: safn
  - IPA (Xiamen): /san⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /san³³/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /san⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Taipei): /san⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /san⁴⁴/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: sang¹
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: sang
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /saŋ³³/
Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai)
  - Wugniu: ¹se
  - MiniDict: se^平
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ¹se
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /se⁵³/

Dialectal data

Variety	Location	edit 刪
Mandarin	Beijing	/ʂan⁵⁵/
	Harbin	/ʂan⁴⁴/
	Tianjin	/san¹³/
	Jinan	/ʂã²¹³/
	Qingdao	/ʂã⁵⁵/
	Zhengzhou	/ʂan²⁴/
	Xi'an	/sã²¹/
	Xining	/sã⁴⁴/
	Yinchuan	/ʂan⁴⁴/
	Lanzhou	/ʂɛ̃n³¹/
	Ürümqi	/ʂan⁴⁴/
	Wuhan	/san⁵⁵/
	Chengdu	/suan⁵⁵/
	Guiyang	/suan⁵⁵/
	Kunming	/ʂã̠⁴⁴/
	Nanjing	/ʂaŋ³¹/
	Hefei	/ʂæ̃²¹/
Jin	Taiyuan	/sæ̃¹¹/
	Pingyao	/sɑŋ³⁵/
	Hohhot	/sæ̃³¹/
Wu	Shanghai	/se⁵³/
	Suzhou	/se̞⁵⁵/
	Hangzhou	/sẽ̞³³/
	Wenzhou	/sa³³/
Hui	Shexian	/sɛ³¹/
Hui	Tunxi	/sɔ¹¹/
Xiang	Changsha	/ɕyan³³/
Xiang	Xiangtan	/san³³/
Gan	Nanchang	/san⁴²/
Hakka	Meixian	/san⁴⁴/
Hakka	Taoyuan
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/san⁵³/
	Nanning	/san⁵⁵/
	Hong Kong	/san⁵⁵/
Min	Xiamen (Hokkien)	/san⁵⁵/
	Fuzhou (Eastern Min)	/saŋ⁴⁴/
	Jian'ou (Northern Min)	/suiŋ⁵⁴/
	Shantou (Teochew)	/saŋ³³/
	Haikou (Hainanese)	/saŋ³⁵/

Middle Chinese: sraen

Rime
Character	刪
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	生 (21)
Final (韻)	刪 (69)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	所姦切
Baxter	sraen
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʃˠan/
Pan Wuyun	/ʃᵚan/
Shao Rongfen	/ʃɐn/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʂaɨn/
Li Rong	/ʃan/
Wang Li	/ʃan/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ʂan/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	shān
Expected Cantonese Reflex	saan¹

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*sraːn/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	刪
Reading #	1/1
No.	11067
Phonetic component	删
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime
Old Chinese	/*sraːn/

Definitions

刪

to delete
刪掉這個文件。／删掉这个文件。 ― Shāndiào zhège wénjiàn. ― Delete this file.
(～日) (telegraphy) the fifteenth day of a month

Compounds

刊刪 / 刊删
刪修 / 删修
刪刈 / 删刈
刪削 / 删削 (shānxuē)
刪剪 / 删剪
刪割 / 删割
刪取 / 删取
刪夷 / 删夷
刪存 / 删存
刪定 / 删定
刪定官 / 删定官
刪定曹 / 删定曹
刪定郎 / 删定郎
刪抹 / 删抹
刪拾 / 删拾
刪掠 / 删掠
刪撰
刪改 / 删改 (shāngǎi)
刪敘 / 删叙
刪易 / 删易
刪書 / 删书
刪本 / 删本
刪棄 / 删弃
刪次 / 删次
刪正 / 删正
刪汰 / 删汰
刪洗 / 删洗
刪減 / 删减 (shānjiǎn)
刪潤 / 删润
刪略 / 删略
刪省 / 删省
刪竄 / 删窜
刪節 / 删节 (shānjié)
刪節本 / 删节本
刪節號 / 删节号 (shānjiéhào)
刪簡 / 删简 (shānjiǎn)
刪約 / 删约
刪緝 / 删缉
刪繁 / 删繁
刪繁就簡 / 删繁就简
刪翦 / 删翦
刪舉 / 删举
刪著 / 删著
刪華就素 / 删华就素
刪落 / 删落
刪蕪就簡 / 删芜就简
刪薙 / 删剃
刪裁 / 删裁
刪補 / 删补
刪要 / 删要
刪訂 / 删订 (shāndìng)
刪詩 / 删诗
刪述 / 删述
刪采
刪除 / 删除 (shānchú)
刪革 / 删革
斬刪 / 斩删
節刪 / 节删
舉要刪蕪 / 举要删芜
要刪 / 要删
討刪 / 讨删
闌刪 / 阑删

References

“刪”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
李如龙 [Li, Ru-long], 刘福铸 [Liu, Fu-zhu], 吴华英 [Wu, Hua-ying], 黄国城 [Huang, Guo-cheng] (2019) “删”, in 莆仙方言调查报告 [Investigation Report on Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 211.

Japanese

Kanji

刪

(Hyōgai kanji)

cut down

Readings

Go-on: せん (sen)
Kan-on: さん (san)
Kun: けずる (kezuru, 刪る)^{←けづる (keduru, 刪る, historical)}

Compounds

刪(さん)去(きょ) (sankyo)
刪(さん)削(さく) (sansaku)
刪(さん)修(しゅう) (sanshū)
刪(さん)述(じゅつ) (sanjutsu)
刪(さん)潤(じゅん) (sanjun)
刪(さん)除(じょ) (sanjo)
刪(さん)定(てい) (santei)
刪(さん)訂(てい) (santei)
刪(さん)補(ぽ) (sanpo)
刪(さん)略(りゃく) (sanryaku)
改(かい)刪(さん) (kaisan)
添(てん)刪(ざん) (tenzan)

Korean

Hanja

刪 (eum 산 (san))

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Vietnamese

Han character

刪: Hán Nôm readings: san

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