# 除 — Exclude

Frequency rank 477 / 2,608 in published Japanese.

Frequent enough that you will keep running into it once you read past headlines.

More common than 局 (Bureau), less common than 守 (Protect).

- On’yomi: じょ
- Kun’yomi: のぞ
- Radical: 阜 Mound (Kangxi 170)
- Frequency path: Level IV of XX

A hill on the left has surplus material on the right -- the surplus dirt from the hillside gets excluded and thrown away.

In words:

- 除く のぞく — to remove,to exclude,to except
- 掃除 そうじする — to clean, to sweep
- 除外 じょがい — exception;exclusion

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