除

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 阝 + phonetic 余.

Han character

除 (radical 170 阜+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 弓中人一木 (NLOMD), four-corner 7829₄)

1. eliminate, remove, except

References

• KangXi: page 1352, character 8
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41669
• Dae Jaweon: page 1854, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4132, character 5
• Unihan data for U+9664

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Cantonese

Hanzi

除 (Yale cheui4)

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Japanese

Kanji

除 (grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: じょ (jo), じ (ji)
• Kun: のぞく (nozoku), はらう (harau)

Compounds

• 掃除 (そうじ, sōji, “clean, sweep up”)
• 駆除 "exterminate"

Korean

Hanja

除
Eumhun:

• Sound (hangeul): 제 (revised: je, McCune-Reischauer: che, Yale: cey)

• Name (hangeul): 덜()

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Mandarin

Verb

除 (traditional and simplified, Pinyin chú)

1. [archaic] to be assigned to a new post; to stop serving in one post, and begin serving in another

External links

• Guoyu Cidian (國語辭典)

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Vietnamese

Han character

除 (trừ, chờ, chừ, chừa, hờ, khừ, xờ, dơ, giờ)