削 - plane, sharpen, whittle

to shave (wood, leather, etc.); to sharpen (e.g. pencil); to plane; to whittle; to pare; to scrape off; to erode

digging out; excavation

cut; reduction; curtailment

correction; looking over; touching up

deletion; elimination; erasure; striking out

flaked bonito

to shave off (esp. concrete)

splinter; chip

denudation

ice-shaving machine

hollow-cheeked

shaving; planing; cutting