削 - plane, sharpen, whittle

flaked bonito

deletion; elimination; erasure; striking out

cut; reduction; curtailment

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

correction; looking over; touching up

digging out; excavation

wooden flower whittled from a log

cutting a person's sidelocks; evenly cut sidelocks (symbol of adulthood for noblewomen in the Heian era); ritual of cutting the sidelocks (coming-of-age ceremony for women from about 1568-1867)

denudation; degradation

shavings; filings

hard delete; physical delete

excavation (esp. of a tunnel); drivage