in English

chú verb, preposition HSK 6
to get rid of / to remove / to exclude / to eliminate / to wipe out / to divide / except / not including

Stroke order

Le caractère 除 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 除 Show the animation

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

How it used to be written

  • Warring States script: 除 Warring States script 春秋晚期或戰國早期.秦
  • Clerical script: 除 Clerical script 東漢
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Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

Examples

  • Tatoeba:句子永远是句子,除非他们不是。

    Tatoeba: Where sentences are always sentences, except when they aren't.

  • 三次测量,一次切除。

    Measure thrice, cut once.

  • 他把他的那段话从磁带里删除了。

    He erased his speech from the tape.

  • 他生活除了享乐之外没别的了。

    He lives for nothing but pleasure.

  • 他的兒子被學校開除了。

    His son was expelled from school.

  • 他的房间除了一张桌子,就甚么也没有了。

    There was nothing but a desk in his room.

  • 切除这块肉的脂肪。

    Trim the fat off the meat.

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