Chinese mnemonics and annotator
Imjagpul (legacy data - reimport)
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削 xiāo scrape
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One giant uses a thing thatresembles knife to scrape himself. The second giant (of the two giants) needs it - because he's taking a shower and wants to scrape his foot. |
Compositions
Explanation of characters by Herbert A. Giles
| 削 |
Hsiao is composed of 刀 tao knife as radical, with a common phonetic. |
Chinese-English (CC-CEDICT)
削
xiāo
to peel with a knife/to pare/to cut (a ball at tennis etc)
削
xuē
to pare/to reduce/to remove/Taiwan pr. [xue4]