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There are 11 total results for your Whitt search.

Characters Pronunciation
Romanization
Simple Dictionary Definition

see styles
xuē
    xue1
hsüeh
 saku
    さく
to pare; to reduce; to remove; Taiwan pr. [xue4]
plane; sharpen; whittle; pare; shave (leather); scrape off; crossout; reduce; curtail

see styles

    mo2
mo
whittle

削る

see styles
 kezuru
    けずる
(transitive verb) (1) to shave (wood, leather, etc.); to sharpen (e.g. pencil); to plane; to whittle; to pare; to scrape off; to erode; (transitive verb) (2) to cut down (budget, expenses, staff, time, etc.); to curtail; to reduce; (transitive verb) (3) to delete; to erase; to remove; to cross out; to strike out

搾る

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 shiboru
    しぼる
(transitive verb) (1) to wring (towel, rag); to squeeze; (2) to squeeze (fruit to extract juice); to press; to extract; to milk; to express milk; (3) to rack (one's brains); to strain (one's voice); (4) to extort; to exploit; (5) to chew out; to reprimand severely; to rake over the coals; to give a sound scolding; to tell someone off; to scold; to rebuke; (6) to drill into; to train; (7) to narrow down (one's focus); to whittle down; (8) to gather up (curtain, etc.); to tighten (drawstring); (9) to stop down (lens); (10) to turn down (e.g. radio); (11) to bend (bow); to draw; (12) (sumo) to hold down; to constrict; to immobilize

消磨

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xiāo mó
    xiao1 mo2
hsiao mo
 shouma / shoma
    しょうま
to wear down; to sap; to whittle away; to while away; to idle away
(n,vs,vt,vi) abrasion; wearing out

絞る

see styles
 shiboru
    しぼる
(transitive verb) (1) to wring (towel, rag); to squeeze; (2) to squeeze (fruit to extract juice); to press; to extract; to milk; to express milk; (3) to rack (one's brains); to strain (one's voice); (4) to extort; to exploit; (5) to chew out; to reprimand severely; to rake over the coals; to give a sound scolding; to tell someone off; to scold; to rebuke; (6) to drill into; to train; (7) to narrow down (one's focus); to whittle down; (8) to gather up (curtain, etc.); to tighten (drawstring); (9) to stop down (lens); (10) to turn down (e.g. radio); (11) to bend (bow); to draw; (12) (sumo) to hold down; to constrict; to immobilize

切取る

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 kiritoru
    きりとる
(transitive verb) to cut off; to excise; to tear off; to cut out; to whittle down; to tear out; to cut down; to amputate

削り花

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 kezuribana
    けずりばな
(archaism) wooden flower whittled from a log

切り取る

see styles
 kiritoru
    きりとる
(transitive verb) to cut off; to excise; to tear off; to cut out; to whittle down; to tear out; to cut down; to amputate

Variations:
絞る
搾る

 shiboru(p); shiboru(sk)
    しぼる(P); シボる(sk)
(transitive verb) (1) (esp. 絞る) to wring (towel, rag); to squeeze; (transitive verb) (2) (esp. 搾る) to squeeze (fruit to extract juice); to press; to extract; to milk; to express milk; (transitive verb) (3) to rack (one's brains); to strain (one's voice); (transitive verb) (4) to extort; to exploit; (transitive verb) (5) (often passive voice) (See 油を絞る) to chew out; to reprimand severely; to rake over the coals; to give a sound scolding; to tell someone off; to scold; to rebuke; (transitive verb) (6) to drill into; to train; (transitive verb) (7) to narrow down (one's focus); to whittle down; (transitive verb) (8) to gather up (curtain, etc.); to tighten (drawstring); (transitive verb) (9) to stop down (lens); (transitive verb) (10) to turn down (e.g. radio); (transitive verb) (11) to bend (bow); to draw; (transitive verb) (12) {sumo} to hold down; to constrict; to immobilize; (transitive verb) (13) (kana only) {go} (See しぼり・4) to squeeze

Variations:
切り取る
切りとる
切取る

 kiritoru
    きりとる
(transitive verb) to cut off; to excise; to tear off; to cut out; to whittle down; to tear out; to cut down; to amputate
This page contains 11 results for "Whitt" in Chinese and/or Japanese.



Information about this dictionary:

Apparently, we were the first ones who were crazy enough to think that western people might want a combined Chinese, Japanese, and Buddhist dictionary.

A lot of westerners can't tell the difference between Chinese and Japanese - and there is a reason for that. Chinese characters and even whole words were borrowed by Japan from the Chinese language in the 5th century. Much of the time, if a word or character is used in both languages, it will have the same or a similar meaning. However, this is not always true. Language evolves, and meanings independently change in each language.

Example: The Chinese character 湯 for soup (hot water) has come to mean bath (hot water) in Japanese. They have the same root meaning of "hot water", but a 湯屋 sign on a bathhouse in Japan would lead a Chinese person to think it was a "soup house" or a place to get a bowl of soup. See this: Japanese Bath House

This dictionary uses the EDICT and CC-CEDICT dictionary files.
EDICT data is the property of the Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group, and is used in conformance with the Group's license.

Chinese Buddhist terms come from Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms by William Edward Soothill and Lewis Hodous. This is commonly referred to as "Soothill's'". It was first published in 1937 (and is now off copyright so we can use it here). Some of these definitions may be misleading, incomplete, or dated, but 95% of it is good information. Every professor who teaches Buddhism or Eastern Religion has a copy of this on their bookshelf. We incorporated these 16,850 entries into our dictionary database ourselves (it was lot of work).



Combined, these cover 1,007,753 Japanese, Chinese, and Buddhist characters, words, idioms, names, placenames, and short phrases.

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