除

chú

“To get rid of” in Chinese is 除 (chú).

Other characters with the syllable chu: see all 11 →

Meaning

to get rid of
to remove
to exclude

Show 5 more meanings

to eliminate
to wipe out
to divide
except
not including

Example

她给花园除了草。

She weeded the garden.

From 除了 · Example sentence from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0).

Stroke Order

9 strokes

Words containing 除

除了chúleapart from; besides; in addition to (used to exclude, as in 除了他，誰也沒來|除了他，谁也没来[chu2 le5 ta1 , shei2 ye3 mei2 lai2] "apart from him, nobody came", or to include, as in 除了英語，他也會法語|除了英语，他也会法语[chu2 le5 Ying1 yu3 , ta1 ye3 hui4 Fa3 yu3] "in addition to English, he also knows French")HSK 3 拆除chāichúto tear downHSK 5 除非chúfēionly if (..., or otherwise, ...)HSK 5 除夕chúxīlunar New Year's EveHSK 5 解除jiěchúto removeHSK 5 排除páichúto eliminateHSK 5 消除xiāochúto eliminateHSK 5 除去chúqùto eliminateHSK 7-9

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