删
刪shān
#2,774 most
frequent character
to delete
Character breakdown
Source: Make Me a Hanzi.
删 combines 册 a bamboo scroll with 刂 a knife. The picture is a blade scraping a wrong character off a wooden or bamboo strip, which grew into the plain sense 'to delete'.
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