删

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to delete

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Formation & memory

Break the character into parts you already know.

Ideographic compound (会意字)

To cut 刂 out passages from a book 册

Components 册刂

delete · Heisig RSH #2783

册 Vol. + saber

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
未删节版	wèi shān jié bǎn	unabridged edition; uncut edition
删简压缩	shān jiǎn yā suō	to simplify and condense (a text); abridged
删节	shān jié	to abridge; to cut a text down to size for publication
删去	shān qù	to delete
删改	shān gǎi	to edit; to modify; to alter (written material)
删除	shān chú	to delete; to cancel
删减	shān jiǎn	to abridge (a text); to edit out (of a movie); to cut back (a budget, a curriculum)
删掉	shān diào	to delete
增删	zēng shān	add and delete
删剪	shān jiǎn	to cut (from a movie etc); to censor
删帖	shān tiě	to delete a forum post
侵删	qīn shān	(Internet slang) if this is an infringement of copyright, please notify me and I will remo…
删汰	shān tài	(literary) to eliminate; to delete