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, composition ⿰⻖余)

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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Chinese

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): chú (chu²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄔㄨˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ceoi⁴
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): chhù
• Min Nan (POJ): tî / tû

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: chú
    • Zhuyin: ㄔㄨˊ
    • Wade-Giles: ch'u²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chwu
    • IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰu³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: ceoi⁴
    • Yale: chèuih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsoei⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰɵy̯²¹/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chhù
    • IPA (Siyen, incl. Miaoli): /t͡sʰu¹¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tî / tû
    • Tâi-lô: tî / tû
    • IPA (Taipei): /ti²³/, /tu²³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ti¹³/, /tu¹³/

Verb

除

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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Japanese

Kanji

除

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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Readings

• Goon: じょ (jo)
• Kan’on: ちょ (cho) (non-Jōyō reading)
• Kan’yōon: じ (ji)
• Kun: のぞく (nozoku), はらう (harau)

Compounds

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

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Korean

Hanja

除 (je)
Eumhun:

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

• Name (hangeul): 덜()

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Vietnamese

Han character

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

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