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Collins Chinese-English Dictionary

除 [chú]
  1. 1. verb [去掉] get rid of
    开除
    dismiss
    去除
    remove
  2. 2. verb [指算术] divide
    除法
    division
    16除以8等于2。
    Sixteen divided by eight is two.
  3. 3. preposition [表示绝对排除关系] except
    除彼得外大家都来了。
    Everyone came except Peter.
  4. 4. preposition [表示并非惟一] apart from
    除了珍妮，谁还去过上海？
    Apart from Jenny, who else has been to Shanghai?

Comprehensive Chinese-English Dictionary

除 [chú]
  1. 1. verb get rid of; eliminate; remove
    除草
    remove weeds; weed
    铲除
    root out; uproot; eradicate
  2. 2. verb [mathematics] divide
    八除以四得二。
    8 divided by 4 is 2.
    二除六得三。
    2 goes into 6 three times.
    十能被五除尽。
    10 divides by 5. or 5 goes into 10.
    简单除法很有意义。
    十除以二等于五。
    二十除八十得四。
  3. 3. preposition except
    除此而外
    with the exception of this; excepting this
    面对困难，除了战胜它，我别无选择。
  4. 4. preposition besides
    除水稻外，我们还种棉花和小麦。
    Besides rice, we grow cotton and wheat.
    除了太阳和月球，太空中还有很多天体。

Contemporary Standard Chinese Dictionary

除 [chú]
  1. 1. 名 [文] 台阶
    洒扫庭除
    阶除
  2. 2. 动 [文] 授予(官职)
    除忠州刺史
  3. 3. 动 去掉;清除
    把杂草除掉
    拔除
    扫除
  4. 4. 动 进行除法运算
    8除16等于2
    6除以2等于3
  5. 5. 介 表示不计算或不包括在内(后面必须加"外""以外""之外"等)
    这篇文章除附录外,只有5000字
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Examples

他说他除了要把事做得更好外别无他图。
He said he had no other aim than to do a better job of it. → 别无他图
除此而外
with the exception of this; excepting this → 除
除水稻外，我们还种棉花和小麦。
Besides rice, we grow cotton and wheat. → 除
除了这位老猎人，那条山路谁也不熟悉。
Nobody knows the mountain path well except the old hunter. → 除了
懂日语的，除了我还有两个人。
There are two others besides me who know some Japanese. → 除了
刚生下来的孩子，除了吃就是睡。
If a newborn baby isn't eating, then it's sleeping. → 除了
这几天除了刮风，就是下雨。
Recently we've been having either windy or rainy days. → 除了
除了小冯以外，其他的人都去了。
Everybody went except Xiao Feng. → 其他
他除母亲外，没有别的亲人。
His mother is the only other member of his family. → 亲人
攘除奸邪
get rid of crafty and evil people → 攘除
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Character Decomposition

阝
[fù]		 + 余
[yú]

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