This logogram is of ideographic origin and it was designed to evoke:

To cut 刂 out passages from a book 冊

  • 刪 to delete; to cut; to censor shān
    • 冊 book, volume, register, list cè
      • 冂 wide jiōng
      • 廾 two hands gǒng
    • 刂 knife dāo

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