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今日の漢字
Secondary schoolJLPT N1

plane, sharpen, whittle, pare, shave

9 strokes · frequency rank #814

On
サク
Kun
けず.る、はつ.る、そ.ぐ

Stroke order

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  8. 8
  9. 9

Common words

  1. さくげんcut; reduction; curtailment1
    • She pared down her expenditures.

    • The House cut the budget for foreign aid.

    • We have cut back production by 20%.

  2. けずるto shave (wood, leather, etc.); to sharpen (e.g. pencil); to plane; to whittle2
    • I sharpened a pencil with a knife.

    • He was struck off the list.

    • Your pencils need sharpening.

  3. さくじょdeletion; elimination; erasure; striking out3
    • "Talking about 108, that's the number of worldly passions." "What worldly passions have you got then?" "I could say, but it'll get censored out."

    • Please delete this file.

    • Delete his name from the list of the applicants.

  4. くっさくdigging out; excavation4
  5. てんさくcorrection; looking over; touching up5
    • He is busy correcting test papers.

    • The teacher corrects our exercises.

    • I had my composition corrected by the teacher.

  6. けずりぶしflaked bonito6
  7. あらけずりrough-hewn; incomplete; unrefined; still in the process of being formed7
  8. けずりとるto shave off; to scrape off8
    • The house was undermined by the flood.

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