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除
Mandarin · pinyin chú
Meanings
- to get rid of
- to remove
- to exclude
- to eliminate
- to wipe out
- to divide
- except
- not including
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- 除
- chú · eliminate, remove, except
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Mandarin tones
2 · chu2
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
ceoi4 · cyu1 · cyu4 · zyu6
Cantonese word readings for 除. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.
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- to remove; to get rid of; to exclude
- (archaic) to be assigned to a new post; to stop serving in one post, and begin serving in another
- (literary, or in compounds) except
- (arithmetic) to divide; division
- (arithmetic, informal) to be divided by
- (Cantonese) to take off (clothes or accessories); to peel off; to strip
- (literary, or in compounds) steps (on a flight of stairs)
- a surname, Chu
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