音読み: ジョ・ジ
訓読み: のぞく
画数: 10
部首: こざとへん（阝）
Meaning
Remove / Exclude / Cancel / Exempt
- Basic forms
- 除く — remove; exclude / base form
- 除きます — removes; excludes / masu form
- 除いた — removed; excluded / ta form
- 除いて — removing …; excluding … / te form
- 除かない — do not remove; do not exclude / negative
- 除けば — if (one) removes; if (one) excludes / conditional
- Common expressions
- 汚れを除く — remove dirt
- 原因を除く — eliminate the cause
- 例外を除く — exclude exceptions
- More
- 除きたい — want to remove / 〜たい form
- 除こう — let’s remove / 〜よう form
- 除いている — is removing; has excluded / state
除く（のぞく） is a godan transitive verb. It means to remove something, or to exclude something from a group or condition.
- 除外 — exclusion
- 削除 — deletion
- 解除 — cancellation / release
- 免除 — exemption
- 掃除 — cleaning
- 除夜 — New Year’s Eve
除 combines the radical 阝 (こざとへん, linked to places or steps) with the phonetic 余. It originally suggested “to clear space” and now broadly means to remove, exclude, or cancel.