plane, sharpen, whittle, pare, shave

Radicals

Common words

• 削減【さくげん】
  cut, reduction, curtailment
• 掘削【くっさく】
  digging out, excavation
• 削り節【けずりぶし】
  flaked bonito
• 添削【てんさく】
  correction, looking over, touching up
• 削り取る【けずりとる】
  to shave off, to scrape off
• 削除【さくじょ】
  deletion, elimination, erasure, striking out
• 削る【けずる】
  to shave (wood, leather, etc.), to sharpen (e.g. pencil), to plane, to whittle, to pare, to scrape off, to erode, to cut down (budget, expenses, staff, time, etc.), to curtail, to reduce, to delete, to erase, to remove, to cross out, to strike out
• 削る【はつる】
  to shave off (esp. concrete), to take a percentage, to take a cut