HSK 5 · Science

删除 shānchú “to delete” in Chinese

Traditional 刪除

What 删除 means

  1. to delete
  2. to cancel

How to say 删除

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale删shān1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale除chú2nd tone, rising

删除 in a sentence

  1. 我删除了这个应用。

    Wǒ shānchú le zhè ge yìngyòng.

    I deleted the app.

    Sentence #8463669 from Tatoeba

  2. 你知道怎么恢复已删除的文件吗？

    Nǐ zhīdao zěnme huīfù yǐ shānchú de wénjiàn ma?

    Do you know how to recover a deleted file?

    Sentence #5722730 from Tatoeba

  3. 你的名字已经从名单删除了。

    Nǐ de míngzi yǐjīng cóng míngdān shānchú le.

    Your name has been removed from the list.

    Sentence #4846808 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 删除 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 删 (shān) with each of its parts in a different colour
删shānto delete
  • 册book · cè
  • 刂knife form of 刀 · dāo
The character 除 (chú) with each of its parts in a different colour
除chúto get rid of
  • 阝place
  • 余surplus · yú

How to write 删除

删 7 strokes · 除 9 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

删除 (shānchú) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 删除 (shānchú). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 删除

Words with 除

除了chúle · besides除夕Chúxī · lunar New Year’s Eve除非chúfēi · only if (…除chú · except解除jiěchú · to remove排除páichú · to rule out清除qīngchú · to clear away消除xiāochú · to eliminate开除kāichú · to expel废除fèichú · to abolish

More words: Science & Technology

浏览liúlǎn · to skim over录音lùyīn · to record (sound)麦克风màikèfēng · microphone (loanword)软件ruǎnjiàn · (computer) software设备shèbèi · equipment设施shèshī · facilities实验shíyàn · experiment输入shūrù · to input

FAQs

删除 (shānchú) means “to delete” or “to cancel”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it shānchú: shān with a 1st tone, then chú with a 2nd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 删除 is written 刪除. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type shanchu with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 删除 from the suggestions. Typing shanchu into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
删除 is an HSK 5 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.