除
chú HSK3

eliminate

除 chú
to remove verbparticle
to get rid of; to eliminate; to remove; to wipe out

除下你的头盔。

chú xia nǐ de tóu​kuī.

Remove your helmet.

except preposition
not including; excluding; used to introduce an exception (often used with 除...外 chú... wài or 除了 chú​le)

除尾巴上有一些短毛外，身体上几乎没有毛。

chú wěi​ba shang yǒu yī​xiē duǎn máo wài, shēn​tǐ shang jī​hū méi​yǒu máo.

Except for some short hair on the tail, there is almost no hair on the body.

大多数博物馆除周一外每天开放。

dà​duō​shù bó​wù​guǎn chú zhōu​yī wài měi​tiān kāi​fàng.

Most of the museums are open daily except Mondays.

besides preposition
in addition to; as well as; used to introduce additional information (often used with 除...外 chú... wài or 除了 chú​le)
to divide noun
to perform the mathematical operation of division
[steps]
(literary) the steps leading up to a door or building; a doorstep
to appoint
(literary) to remove someone from an old office and appoint them to a new official position
surname
a Chinese surname

Cross-References

Referenced by

Frequency
Character
Written text
464th most common 461.3 per million
Movie subtitles
427th most common 346.6 per million appears in 84% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
17.3 per million appears in 7% of films
Written text
110.3 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 3
HSK 3.0
Level 3
Strokes
9
Unicode
U+9664

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)