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除去

chúqù

to remove; apart from; excluding

One pear is taken away from a row, the rest stay
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Characters in this word

除 chú

Strokes
9
Radical
阝 — place, town, city
Made of
阝 place, town, city 余 surplus, remainder
How it's built
Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
More about the character 除

去 qù

Strokes
5
Radical
厶 — private, secret
Made of
土 soil, earth 厶 private, secret

Example phrases

  • 除去一次性补贴,项目本身的收益率并不乐观。 Chúqù yí cì xìng bǔtiē, xiàngmù běnshēn de shōuyìlǜ bìng bù lèguān. Excluding the one-off subsidy, the project's own rate of return is not optimistic.
  • 除去周末,我每天都要坐一个小时的地铁上班。 Chúqù zhōumò, wǒ měitiān dōu yào zuò yí gè xiǎoshí de dìtiě shàngbān. Apart from weekends, I spend an hour on the metro to work every day.
  • 用这种清洁剂可以除去衣服上的油渍。 Yòng zhè zhǒng qīngjiéjì kěyǐ chúqù yīfu shang de yóuzì. This cleaning agent can remove grease stains from clothes.

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