削
xiāoxuē HSK7

scrape off

削 xiāo frequency
to peel verb
to peel or pare with a knife; to scrape or whittle

他甚至连一支铅笔都削不好。

tā shèn​zhì lián yī zhī qiān​bǐ dōu xiāo bu hǎo.

He can't even sharpen a pencil properly.

to slice
(in sports like table tennis) to hit a ball with a slicing or chopping motion
to scold
(colloquial) to reprimand or give someone a talking-to
削 xuē
to reduce verb
(bound form) to reduce, remove, or weaken

预算被削减了一半。

yù​suàn bèi xuē jiǎn le yī bàn.

The budget was cut in half.

to pare
(bound form) used in literary or fixed compounds to mean pare or whittle

Cross-References

See

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,794th most common 47.4 per million
Movie subtitles
2,444th most common 9.33 per million appears in 5% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
4.86 per million appears in 2% of films
Written text
8.81 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Strokes
9
Unicode
U+524A

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)