(chú) - to remove; except; besides (bound morpheme) in Mandarin
chúTraditional: 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
除
Examples
，。
Apart from you, no one knows.
雨，。
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".
Appears in 2 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 除.
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