chú

eliminate

Original meaning: 

stair steps

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Based on the original meaning "stair steps". The meaning later shifted to "divide", "remove", and "except".

Components
阝 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

hill, place

is a component form of .

余 sound component

  Sound component

  

I

Evolution

除 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
除 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
除 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

chú

eliminate, remove, except; to get rid of; to remove; to exclude; to eliminate; to wipe out; to divide; except; not including

Most common words with 除
Freq.
Word
Meaning

除了

besides

除非

only when

to remove

消除

to eliminate

排除

to eliminate

Component uses

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