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(chú) - to remove; except; besides (bound morpheme) in Mandarin

chú

Traditional: 除

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Translation

to remove; except; besides (bound morpheme)

Word origin

A phono-semantic character: the mound radical 阝on the left originally referred to steps or a terrace and gives the meaning, and 余 (yú) supplies the sound. It means to remove, and by extension except or besides.

Origin
phono-semantic
Root
阝(mound radical) + 余 (yú, phonetic)

Stroke order

Stroke order for 除

除

Examples

，。

Apart from you, no one knows.

雨yǔ，。

We won't go unless it rains.

，。

Apart from weekends, I work every day.

。

Please remove these things.

。

He was expelled.

除 (chú) is a bound morpheme meaning to remove or "except", essential to 除了 (chú le) "except" and 除非 (chú fēi) "unless".

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Appears in 2 words

Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 除.

除了chú leexcept, besides, apart from除非chú fēiunless, only if

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This word is part of lesson 103.