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Mythic Mandarin

除 (chú): meaning and stroke order

除 (chú) means to get rid of, to remove, to exclude, to eliminate, to wipe out, to divide, except.

除

Simplified
除
Traditional
除 (same form)
Pinyin
chú

Stroke order of 除

除

  • chú to get rid of; to remove
  • 9 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 除

  1. chú
    • to get rid of
    • to remove
    • to exclude
    • to eliminate
    • to wipe out
    • to divide
    • except
    • not including

Radical and structure

除
Radical 阜 (Kangxi radical 170) · 10 strokes · 阝 on the left, 余 on the right

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

Words with 除

  • 开除 kāi chú to expel (a member of an organization); to fire (an employee)
  • 除非 chú fēi only if (..., or otherwise, ...); only when
  • 除了 chú le apart from; besides; in addition to (used to exclude, as in 除了他，誰也沒來|除了他，谁也没来[chu2 le5 ta1 , shei2 ye3 mei2 lai2] "apart from him, nobody came", or to include, as in 除了英語，他也會法語|除了英语，他也会法语[chu2 le5 Ying1 yu3 , ta1 ye3 hui4 Fa3 yu3] "in addition to English, he also knows French"); (used to introduce one of two habitual alternatives in the pattern 除了[chu2 le5] + A + 就是[jiu4 shi4] + B, "either A or B")

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).