U+522A "刪" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
U+522A "刪" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character used primarily in written Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, where it conveys the meaning of "to delete," "to remove," or "to cut out." Its structure combines the radical for "knife" or "blade" with a phonetic component on the left, reflecting the original sense of cutting away text from a surface such as bamboo or paper. In modern usage, it appears in contexts like editing, computing commands for deletion, and formal writing where precision in removal is implied. While commonly replaced by the simplified character "删" in mainland China, it remains standard in regions using traditional characters, including Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau, as well as in certain historical or literary texts throughout East Asia.