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除非 (chú fēi): meaning and stroke order

除非 (chú fēi) means only if (..., or otherwise, ...), only when, only in the case that, unless.

除非

Simplified
除非
Traditional
除非 (same form)
Pinyin
chú fēi

Stroke order of 除非

除

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

Stroke by stroke

非

  • Fēi abbr. for 非洲[Fei1 zhou1], Africa
  • fēi to not be; not; wrong; incorrect
  • 8 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 除非

  1. chú fēi
    • only if (..., or otherwise, ...)
    • only when
    • only in the case that
    • unless

Radicals of the characters

除
Radical 阜 (Kangxi radical 170) · 10 strokes · 阝 on the left, 余 on the right
非
Radical 非 (Kangxi radical 175) · 8 strokes

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.

除非 in our stories

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  • 坐在对面的郝大爷一下子站了起来，手里的茶杯直晃：“砍树？除非先把我砍了！”

    zuò zài duìmiàn de Hǎo dàye yíxiàzi zhàn le qǐlai shǒu lǐ de chábēi zhí huàng kǎn shù chúfēi xiān bǎ wǒ kǎn le

    Old Mr Hao, sitting opposite, leapt to his feet, the teacup shaking in his hand: "Cut the tree? Over my dead body!"

    From the story The persimmon tree over the wall HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 除非

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).