Chinese mnemonics and annotator
Matthews
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除 chú to remove
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#738
Chapter-37 HSK-A
9 strokes
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Compositions
Explanation of characters by Herbert A. Giles
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Ch'u is composed of 余 yü I, myself, as phonetic, with 阜 as radical. It originally meant the steps to a hall, and then to take away, to subtract, as in modern Chinese. |
Chinese-English (CC-CEDICT)
除
chú
to get rid of/to remove/to exclude/to eliminate/to wipe out/to divide/except/not including