除
chú HSK3

eliminate

除 chú
remove verb
to get rid of, eliminate, or wipe out

园丁正在花园里忙着除草。

yuán​dīng zhèng​zài huā​yuán lǐ máng zhe chú cǎo.

The gardener is busy weeding in the garden.

divide verb
to perform mathematical division

十除以五等于二。

shí chú yǐ wǔ děng​yú èr.

Ten divided by five equals two.

except preposition
not including or excluding something

除他以外，没有人知道这个秘密。

chú tā yǐ​wài, méi​yǒu rén zhī​dào zhè​ge mì​mì.

No one knows the secret except for him.

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
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)