Chinese symbol for “deduct”
扣除
kòu chú
to deduct
The closest CC-CEDICT match for deduct is 扣除 (kòu chú), defined as: to deduct.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “deduct”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 抵扣 | dǐ kòu | to deduct (money due) |
| 扣减 (扣減) | kòu jiǎn | to deduct |
| 扣 | kòu | to fasten; to button |
| 刨 | páo | to dig; to excavate |
| 扣去 | kòu qù | to deduct (points etc) |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 扣除.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 扣押 | kòu yā | to detain; to hold in custody |
| 折扣 | zhé kòu | discount |
| 扣留 | kòu liú | to detain sb; to hold sb against their will; to withhold (property, documents, funds etc) |
| 回扣 | huí kòu | brokerage; a commission paid to a middleman |
| 扣子 (釦子) | kòu zi | button |
| 除了 | chú le | apart from; besides; in addition to (used to exclude, as in 除了他，誰也沒來|除了他，谁也没来[chu2 le5 ta1 , shei2 ye3 mei2 lai2] "apart from him, nobody ca |
| 废除 (廢除) | fèi chú | to abolish; to abrogate |
| 删除 (刪除) | shān chú | to delete; to cancel |
See also: Japanese symbol for “deduct”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.