How to say "deletion" in Japanese

• 削除さくじょJLPT N2approx.Common
  noun, suru verb, transitive verbThe general word for deletion itself: removing text, data, or other content so that it is gone. Use this when you simply mean 'delete', without any nuance of wiping away or striking out.
  「百八ひゃくはちといえば煩悩ぼんのうの数かずだ」「お兄にいちゃんはどんな煩悩ぼんのうがあるの？」「言いってもいいが、検閲けんえつ削除さくじょになるぞ」↗

  "Talking about 108, that's the number of worldly passions." "What worldly passions have you got then?" "I could say, but it'll get censored out."
• 消去しょうきょJLPT N1approx.Common
  noun, suru verb, transitive verbDeletion as erasure or clearing: making something disappear or wiping it away rather than cutting it out. Fits erasing writing or marks, or clearing stored content or memory.
• 抹消まっしょうCommon
  noun, suru verb, transitive verbA forceful word for obliteration: crossing something out or striking it off completely, especially a name or entry in records, or cancellation. Seldom the word you want for everyday deletion of text or data.
  チャーリーは最後さいごの語ごを抹消まっしょうすることに決きめた。↗

  Charlie decided to cross out the last word.

For plain removal of text or data use 削除; for erasing or clearing something away use 消去; and for forceful crossing out, striking off, or cancellation, as of names or entries in records, use 抹消.

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• 削除さくじょdeletion
• 消去しょうきょerasure
• 抹消まっしょうerasure
• 消除しょうじょdeletion
• 欠失けっしつdeletion