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拆除

chāi chú

HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word

拆除 (chāi chú) means "to tear down; to demolish; to dismantle". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 拆除 means

1. to tear down
2. to demolish
3. to dismantle
4. to remove

The characters in 拆除

• 拆chāito tear open; to tear down; to tear apart
• 除chúto get rid of; to remove; to exclude

Example sentences

• 他们将在两天内拆除这栋旧的建筑物。
  Tāmen jiāng zài liǎng tiān nèi chāichú zhè dòng jiù de jiànzhùwù.
  They will tear down the old building in two days.
• 没有人会为这个旧建筑物的拆除而落泪。
  Méiyǒu rén huì wèi zhège jiù jiànzhùwù de chāichú ér luòlèi.
  Nobody's going to shed any tears if that old building gets torn down.
• 这栋老房子被拆除了，以腾出空间给超级市场。
  Zhè dòng lǎo fángzi bèi chāichú le, yǐ téngchū kōngjiān gěi chāojíshìchǎng.
  The old houses were torn down to make room for a supermarket.

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