shān

to delete

book (册) + knife (刂) = delete

册 depicts bound bamboo strips — the ancient form of a book or document. A knife drawn through those strips removes what is written.

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Bound bamboo strip bookSemantic
Knife (variant of 刀)Semantic

请把这个文件掉。

qǐng bǎ zhè ge wén jiàn shān diào。

Please delete this file.

他把发出去的消息了,但对方已经看到了。

tā bǎ fā chū qù de xiāo xi shān le,dàn duì fāng yǐ jīng kàn dào le。

He deleted the message he had sent, but the other person had already seen it.

Words with 删

侵删

qīn shān

(Internet slang) if this is an infringement of copyright, please notify me and I will remove it

删剪

shān jiǎn

to cut (from a movie etc)

删去

shān qù

to delete

删帖

shān tiě

to delete a forum post

删掉

shān diào

to delete

删改

shān gǎi

to edit

删汰

shān tài

(literary) to eliminate; to delete

删减

shān jiǎn

to abridge (a text)

删节

shān jié

to abridge

删简压缩

shān jiǎn yā suō

to simplify and condense (a text)

删除

shān chú

to delete

增删

zēng shān

add and delete

More characters with 册