remove

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: The on readings are じょ and じ, and the kun reading is のぞく. It has 10 strokes. It appears in words for excluding, removing, or deleting something.
• Basic usage: 除く is read のぞく and 削除 is read さくじょ.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• 除く / 削除
  • 除く means to exclude or to remove and is read のぞく. It describes excluding someone from a list or removing impurities from water.
  • 参加者の一覧から欠席者を除いた。 means “I removed the absentees from the list of participants.”
  • 削除 means deletion or removal and is read さくじょ. It refers to deleting a photograph or removing a sentence from a manuscript.
  • 不要になった写真を端末から削除した。 means “I deleted photographs I no longer needed from the device.”