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漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements

除: exclude, division (x/3)

Also: remove, abolish, cancel, except

JLPT N310 strokesGrade 6Your ink: 白 Not met

⻖ carries the meaning · 余 gives the sound

10 strokes

Three readings, and the words that use each

ジョjo · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 除外するじょがいするexclude
  • 除去するじょきょするremove, get rid of
  • 除雪するじょせつするremove snow
  • 除名するじょめいするdismiss, expel, excommunicate
  • 免除するめんじょするexempt, exonerate
  • 排除するはいじょするexclude, remove, reject
  • 解除するかいじょするcancel, rescind, release
  • 削除するさくじょするeliminate, cancel, delete
  • 控除するこうじょするdeduct, subtract

ジji · on'yomi

  • 掃除するそうじするclean, sweep

のぞくnozoku · kun'yomi · on its own

  • 除くのぞくremove, exclude, exempt

Also read -よけ, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.

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Where it comes from

Origin · sourced

Phono-semantic compound (形聲)阜 (meaning) + 余 (sound)

Source: Wiktionary, 除 (rev. 92678353), CC BY-SA 4.0

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Climb high! This radical represents the natural landscape of mounds, hills, and the protective physical barriers they provide for human settlements.”
More in the 阝 hill story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
⻖

Also built on hill (⻖)

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余

Also built on too much (余)

除 takes the 余 family's reading, ジョ (jo).

Also read ジョ

7 kanji share this on'yomi

Also read ジ

27 kanji share this on'yomiAll 27

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
除 exclude · ⻖
vs徐 gradually · 彳
除 has ⻖ where 徐 has 彳.
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · chú

Same form: 除 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).

Simplified
除 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
除 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin chú most common reading

Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.

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