Chinese symbol for “expel”
开除
kāi chú
Traditional: 開除
to expel (a member of an organization); to fire (an employee)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for expel is 开除 (kāi chú), defined as: to expel (a member of an organization); to fire (an employee).
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “expel”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 驱逐 (驅逐) | qū zhú | to expel; to deport |
| 逐出 | zhú chū | to expel; to evict |
| 驱 (驅) | qū | to expel; to urge on |
| 撵 (攆) | niǎn | to expel; to oust |
| 撵出 (攆出) | niǎn chū | to expel; to drive out |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 开除.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 开始 (開始) | kāi shǐ | to begin; to start; beginning; start |
| 开发 (開發) | kāi fā | to exploit (a resource); to open up (for development); to develop |
| 离开 (離開) | lí kāi | to depart; to leave |
| 公开 (公開) | gōng kāi | open; overt; public; to make public; to release |
| 开放 (開放) | kāi fàng | to bloom; to open |
| 召开 (召開) | zhào kāi | to convene (a conference or meeting); to convoke |
| 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 |
See also: Japanese symbol for “expel”.
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.