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shān

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shān Meaning

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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
shān | shan1
English translation
to delete
to delete; to cut; to censor

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About shān

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Number of strokes

7

Traditional form

shān

Contains the radical

dāo

Part of speech

Verb / 动词 dòng cí Dòngcí

Learning hint

To cut  dāo out passages from a book 

Etymology of shān

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Type

ideographic

Positional decomposition

册刂

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Example sentences using shān

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xiě 报告 bàogào shí yāo shān zhè jiē .

Don't omit this paragraph when you write your report.

zuì hǎo 报告 bàogào shān jiǎn dào .

You'd better cut your report to five pages.

编辑 biānjí shān le zhè piān 文章 wénzhāng de 第三 Duàn .

The editor omitted the third paragraph from the article.

如果 rúguǒ shān 去几, 我们 wǒmen 整个 zhěnggè 故事 gùshì xiě zài shǎng .

If you delete several words, we can put the whole story on one page.

编辑 biānjí shān le 这篇报道 bàodào .

The editor spiked the story.

Words with shān

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
shān to delete shān
删除 shānchú to delete刪除
删减 shān jiǎn to abridge (a text)刪減
删去 shān qù to delete刪去
删节 shān jié to abridge刪節
删改 shān gǎi to edit刪改
增删 zēng shān add and delete增刪

shān Decomposition & Compounds

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shān Decomposition

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