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开除

kāi chú

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 開除

开除 (kāi chú) means "to expel (a member of an organization); to fire (an employee)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 开除 means

1. to expel (a member of an organization)
2. to fire (an employee)

The characters in 开除

• 开kāito open (transitive or intransitive); (of ships, vehicles, troops etc) to start…
• 除chúto get rid of; to remove; to exclude

Example sentences

• 他被学校开除了。
  The school expelled him.
• 你曾经被开除过吗?
  Nǐ céngjīng bèi kāichú guò ma?
  Have you been fired?
• 我们决定不开除你。
  We've decided not to fire you.
• 汤姆应该要被开除。
  Tom should be fired.
• 伊凡后来被开除了。
  Ivan was fired afterwards.
• 他的儿子被学校开除了。
  Tā de érzi bèi xuéxiào kāichú le.
  His son was expelled from school.

Words starting with 开除

• 开除学籍kāi chú xué jíto expel from school
• 开除党籍kāi chú dǎng jíto expel from the Party

Where 开除 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · jūn–kǎ (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read kāi chú correctly.
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