除了
chú​lechú​le HSK3

apart from

除了 chú​le
apart from preposition
apart from; besides; in addition to (used to exclude or include)

除了他，大家都准时参加了今天的晚会。

chú​le tā, dà​jiā dōu zhǔn​shí cān​jiā le jīn​tiān de wǎn​huì.

Everyone except him attended the party today on time.

besides preposition
Besides; except for; aside from.
either... or preposition
used to introduce one of two habitual alternatives in the pattern 除了 chú​le A 就是 jiù​shì B

由于假期无聊，他整天除了吃饭就是睡觉。

yóu​yú jià​qī wú​liáo, tā zhěng​tiān chú​le chī​fàn jiù shì shuì​jiào.

Because the holiday was boring, he did nothing but eat and sleep all day.

Frequency
Movie subtitles
153.4 per million appears in 51% of films
Written text
191.2 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 3
HSK 3.0
Level 3

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICTAI-generated definitions
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)