削 Whittle Down

Radical Combination

• Triceratops
• 月

  Moon
• 刂

  Knife

Meaning

Primary

Whittle Down

Mnemonic

A triceratops with a moon knife can whittle down anything.

Hints

Imagine the triceratops with its little moon knife, doing some whittling. Hand it anything and it will whittle it down.

Readings

On’yomi

さく

Kun’yomi

けず

Nanori

None

Mnemonic

Everything it will whittle down shall be put in a sack (さく).

Hints

Check out the sack that holds all the things that the triceratops whittled down. Go ahead and look through it, it's quite filled.