去
to go; to go to (a place); (of a time etc) last; just passed; to send; to remove; to get rid of; to reduce; to be apart from in space or time; to die (euphemism); to play (a part); (when used either before or after a verb) to go in order to do sth; (after a verb of motion indicates movement away from the speaker); (used after certain verbs to indicate detachment or separation)
5 strokes
Dict coverage rank #474 U+53BB
How 去 is formed
How to remember it
go · Heisig RSH #675
土 soil + elbow
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Characters built with 去 as their sound component
These characters all use 去 (qù) as their phonetic component — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 去 sound component | qù | to go away, to leave, to depart |
| 劫 | jié | to take by force, to coerce; disaster; misfortune |
| 却 | què | still, but; decline; retreat |
| 怯 | qiè | afraid, lacking in courage |
| 佉 | qū | the name of a divine being; surname |
| 珐 | fà | enamel, cloissoné |
| 砝 | fǎ | a standard weight (as for a balance) |
Words containing 去
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 去中心化 | qù zhōng xīn huà | decentralization |
| 一去不回 | yī qù bù huí | gone forever |
| 有去无回 | yǒu qù wú huí | gone forever (idiom) |
| 不去理 | bù qù lǐ | not to pay attention to; to leave sth as it is; to ignore |
| 一来二去 | yī lái èr qù | gradually; little by little; in the course of time |
| 去光水 | qù guāng shuǐ | nail polish remover (Tw) |
| 过意不去 | guò yì bù qù | to feel very apologetic |
| 去台人员 | qù Tái rén yuán | those who left China for Taiwan before the founding of PRC in 1949 |
| 活不下去 | huó bù xià qu | impossible to make a living |
| 过不去 | guò bu qù | to make life difficult for; to embarrass; unable to make it through |
| 说不过去 | shuō bu guò qù | cannot be justified; inexcusable |
| 过去分词 | guò qu fēn cí | past participle (in European grammar) |
| 去离子水 | qù lí zǐ shuǐ | (chemistry) deionized water |
| 来回来去 | lái huí lái qù | repeatedly; back and forth again and again |
| 转来转去 | zhuàn lái zhuàn qù | to rove around; to run around in circles; to walk back and forth |
| 去国 | qù guó | to leave one's country |
| 比下去 | bǐ xià qù | to defeat; to be superior to |
| 过去时 | guò qù shí | past tense (grammar) |
| 爱得死去活来 | ài de sǐ qù huó lái | to be madly in love |
| 家去 | jiā qù | (dialect) to go home; to return home |