HSK 6 · Work

开除 kāichú “to expel” in Chinese

Traditional 開除

What 开除 means

  1. to expel
  2. to dismiss
  3. to expel (a member of an organisation)
  4. to fire (an employee)

How to say 开除

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale开kāi1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale除chú2nd tone, rising

开除 in a sentence

  1. 我们决定不开除你。

    Wǒmen juédìng bù kāichú nǐ.

    We’ve decided not to fire you.

    Sentence #5684118 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 他的儿子被学校开除了。

    Tā de érzi bèi xuéxiào kāichú le.

    His son was expelled from school.

    Sentence #848596 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

  3. 如果那个男人再犯一个错误，我就开除他。

    Rúguǒ nà ge nánrén zài fàn yí ge cuòwù, wǒ jiù kāichú tā.

    If that man makes one more mistake, I’ll fire him.

    Sentence #9955878 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 开除 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 开 (kāi) with each of its parts in a different colour
开kāito open
  • 一one · yī
  • 廾two hands · gǒng

Memory aidSimplified from 開: two hands lifting the bar of a gate 門: to open.

The character 除 (chú) with each of its parts in a different colour
除chúto get rid of
  • 阝place
  • 余surplus · yú

How to write 开除

开 4 strokes · 除 9 strokes

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开除 (kāichú) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 开除 (kāichú). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 开除

Words with 开

开kāi · to open开车kāichē · to drive a car开始kāishǐ · to begin开学kāixué · to start a new school term打开dǎkāi · to open离开líkāi · leave开会kāihuì · to have a meeting开花kāihuā · to bloom分开fēnkāi · to separate开机kāijī · to switch on (a device)

Words with 除

除了chúle · besides除夕Chúxī · lunar New Year’s Eve删除shānchú · to delete除非chúfēi · only if (…除chú · except解除jiěchú · to remove排除páichú · to rule out清除qīngchú · to clear away消除xiāochú · to eliminate废除fèichú · to abolish

More words: Work & Career

就业jiùyè · employment就职jiùzhí · to take office纪要jìyào · summary决策juécè · to make a policy decision考核kǎohé · to assess客户kèhù · client落实luòshí · to put into effect派遣pàiqiǎn · to dispatch

FAQs

开除 (kāichú) means “to expel” or “to dismiss”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it kāichú: kāi with a 1st tone, then chú with a 2nd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 开除 is written 開除. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type kaichu with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 开除 from the suggestions. Typing kaichu into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
开除 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.