除
Ancient forms
1 formGlyphs: Wikimedia Commons, public domain.
Meaning
chú chu2
- to get rid of
- to remove
- to exclude
- to eliminate
- to wipe out
- to divide
- except
- not including
Example sentences
HSK words with 除
- 除了 chúle besides
- 除非 chúfēi only if (..., or otherwise, ...)
- 排除 páichú to eliminate
- 消除 xiāochú to eliminate
- 解除 jiěchú to remove
- 拆除 chāichú to tear down
- 除夕 Chúxī lunar New Year's Eve
- 切除 qiēchú to excise
- 清除 qīngchú to clear away
- 开除 kāichú to expel (a member of an organization)
- 除此之外 chúcǐzhīwài apart from this
- 删除 shānchú to delete
- 除去 chúqù to eliminate
- 去除 qùchú to remove
- 除外 chúwài to exclude
- 废除 fèichú to abolish
- 扣除 kòuchú to deduct
- 免除 miǎnchú to prevent
- 剔除 tīchú to reject
- 破除 pòchú to eliminate
- 扫除 sǎochú to sweep
- 斩草除根 zhǎncǎochúgēn to cut weeds and eliminate the roots (idiom); to destroy root and branch