除 - Mandarin word #5135

除

chú

Traditional: 除

#5135 of 5,000 Core 5000

Translation

to remove; except; besides (bound morpheme)

Stroke order

除

，。

Apart from you, no one knows.

雨yǔ，。

We won't go unless it rains.

周zhōu末mò，。

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".

除非

unless, only if

除了

except, besides, apart from

Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 除.

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This word is part of lesson 103.