The word **除外** (chúwài), meaning "to exclude" or "except for," is a logical compound formed by combining the verb **除** (chú), which means "to remove" or "to exclude," with the noun **外** (wài), meaning "outside." The formation follows a straightforward syntactic pattern where the action of "removing" (除) is directed toward placing something "outside" (外) of a defined scope or set, thus creating a single term that functionally means "to set aside as an exception." This transparent structure makes its meaning highly intuitive to comprehend.