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Mythic Mandarin

开除 (kāi chú): meaning and stroke order

开除 (kāi chú) means to expel (a member of an organization), to fire (an employee).

开除

Simplified
开除
Traditional
開除
Pinyin
kāi chú

Stroke order of 开除

开

  • kāi to open (transitive or intransitive); (of ships, vehicles, troops etc) to start
  • 4 strokes
  • Traditional form: 開

Stroke by stroke

除

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

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 开除

  1. kāi chú Traditional 開除
    • to expel (a member of an organization)
    • to fire (an employee)

Radicals of the characters

开
Radical 廾 (Kangxi radical 55) · 4 strokes · 一 on top, 廾 below
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.

开除 in our stories

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  • 石青山被开除了，从此再也没有上过船。直到去世，他都不肯跟家人提起那天晚上的事。

    Shí Qīngshān bèi kāichú le cóngcǐ zài yě méiyǒu shàng guò chuán zhídào qùshì tā dōu bù kěn gēn jiārén tíqǐ nà tiān wǎnshang de shì

    Shi Qingshan was dismissed and never went to sea again. Until the day he died he refused to talk to his family about that night.

    From the story The storm that never was HSK 7–9 · Level 8

Stories using 开除

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).