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削

Cantonese · source Jyutpingsoek3#

(Cantonese)
cut; chop
weak (physical)
incapable

Cantonese · source Jyutpingsoek3#

to pare
to reduce
to remove
Taiwan pr. xuè
to peel
to trim
to scrape off
to cut (the ball)
describes food which is of a soft but slightly elastic texture

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Source definition segments, in their original order. Characters a definition cites are shown without their Mandarin pinyin; classifier lists that CC-Canto copied from CC-CEDICT are marked Mandarin. The community dictionary is not independently verified by zimai.

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Reading & tones

soek33 · mid levelchecked · -k

Schematic citation-tone diagrams from the source numbers. These are not recordings or predictions of connected speech.

Same syllable, six tones

soeksoek1—soek2—削soek3to paresoek4—soek5—soek6—

Characters whose customary Unihan reading (kCantonese) is this syllable in each tone, chosen as in the tone atlas (2013 standard level, then the number of CC-CEDICT words they form), with CC-Canto 2017's meaning for that reading; a dash means no catalogue character has that reading. Checked syllables (-p, -t, -k) normally carry tones 1, 3 and 6. Character readings, not word readings; no frequency implied.

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Written characters

削

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CC-CEDICT, the Mandarin–English dictionary, lists the same written form:

削 xiāo CC-CEDICT · Mandarinto peel with a knife; to pare; to cut (a ball at tennis etc)
削 xuē CC-CEDICT · Mandarinto pare; to reduce; to remove; Taiwan pr. xuè

A separate source entry, shown for comparison. The same characters can carry different senses in Mandarin and in Cantonese; zimai does not align these senses.

CC-Canto includes this pinyin reference: xue1. It does not establish a Mandarin word with the same meaning.

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

ciu3 · soek3

Cantonese word readings for 削. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

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Wiktionary English definitions · Chinese section

Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.

character

to pare with a knife; to peel with a knife; to scrape off the surface; to slice
to divide; to split; to separate
(obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to reduce; to cut down
(obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to weaken
(obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to rob; to expropriate; to plunder
(obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese, literary or Taiwanese Hokkien) to delete; to remove; to cut out
(table tennis) to slice (the ball)
(ideophonic) steep (as if sliced); precipitous; sheer
(ideophonic) emaciated; scraggy; slender
(historical) writing knife
(historical) thin slips of wood used for writing; letters
(Cantonese) skinny; lean
(Cantonese) to hurt (the stomach)
(Hokkien) to mock; to ridicule; to have a dig at someone (to embarrass someone)
(Xiamen Hokkien) to remove fat, etc. from a body organ (of food or beverage)
(Xiamen Hokkien) to damage the spleen, stomach, etc. (of food or beverage)
(Taiwanese Hokkien) to compete; to fight

character

original form of 鞘 (qiào, “sword sheath”)

character

(historical) fief within three hundred li from the state capital

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