削
xiāoxuē HSK7

scrape off

削 xiāo frequency
peel verb
to peel or pare something with a knife

他正在削苹果。

tā zhèng​zài xiāo píng​guǒ.

He is peeling an apple.

slice ball verb
to cut or slice a ball in sports like tennis

他在比赛中削了一个球。

tā zài bǐ​sài zhōng xiāo le yī gè qiú.

He sliced the ball during the match.

削 xuē
pare verb
to cut away the outer surface or layer of an object using a knife

他正在用小刀削苹果。

tā zhèng​zài yòng xiǎo​dāo xuē píng​guǒ.

He is peeling an apple with a small knife.

reduce verb
to diminish in amount, degree, or power, or to remove someone from a position

公司的预算被削去了一大部分。

gōng​sī de yù​suàn bèi xuē qù le yī dà​bù​fen.

A large part of the company's budget has been cut.

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
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)