除了 (chú le): meaning and stroke order
除了 (chú le) means apart from; besides; in addition to (used to exclude, as in 除了他，谁也没来 "apart from him.
除了
- Simplified
- 除了
- Traditional
- 除了 (same form)
- Pinyin
- chú le
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Stroke order of 除了
除
- chú to get rid of; to remove
- 9 strokes
Stroke by stroke
了
- le (completed action marker); (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now)
- liǎo to finish; (used with 得[de2] or 不[bu4] after a verb to express (im)possibility, as in 忘不了[wang4 bu5 liao3] "cannot forget")
- liǎo (of eyes) bright; clear-sighted
- 2 strokes
- Traditional form: 瞭
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Meaning of 除了
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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")
Radicals of the characters
- 除
- Radical 阜 (Kangxi radical 170) · 10 strokes · 阝 on the left, 余 on the right
- 了
- Radical 亅 (Kangxi radical 6) · 2 strokes · 乛 on top, 亅 below
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.
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).