削 On the HSK 7-9 vocabulary list, at CEFR level C2. xiāo ㄒㄧㄠ to peel with a knife to pare to cut (a ball at tennis etc) xuē ㄒㄩㄝ to pare to reduce to remove Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0 国际中文教育中文水平等级标准, 中华人民共和国教育部, MIT