除了

chúle

A1 Level 3* ★ Core word

Preposition

Definition

apart from; besides; in addition to (used to exclude, as in 除了他，誰也沒來 "apart from him, nobody came", or to include, as in 除了英語，他也會法語 "in addition to English, he also knows French")
(used to introduce one of two habitual alternatives in the pattern 除了 + A + 就是 + B, "either A or B")

Stroke order

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Example

除了中文，他還會說台語。

Besides Mandarin, he can also speak Taiwanese.

Related words at this level

Vocabulary & levels: TBCL / NAER. Parts of speech: TOCFL 8000-word list (SC-TOP). Definitions: CC-CEDICT & CFDICT (CC BY-SA). Stroke data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License).