去

Translingual

Stroke order

Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 大 (“man”) + 口 (“mouth”) – a figure with mouth/voice below, departing. Top figure simplified to 土, unrelated to 士 (“scholar, gentleman”), while bottom simplified to 厶.

Simplified from 谷 additionally as part of 却, from 卻.

Han character

去 (radical 28 厶+3, 5 strokes, cangjie input 土戈 (GI), four-corner 4073₁, composition ⿱土厶)

1. go away, leave, depart

Derived characters

• 却

References

• KangXi: page 164, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3070
• Dae Jaweon: page 372, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 384, character 8
• Unihan data for U+53BB

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Cantonese

Hanzi

去 (Yale heui3)

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Japanese

Kanji

去 (grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. to leave, to go away

Readings

• On: きょ (kyo), こ (ko)
• Kun: さる (saru), いぬ (inu)

Compounds

• 去就
• 去勢
• 去年
• 去来
• 除去 (じょきょ, jokyo): removal, elimination, disposal, rejection, relief (of pain, worry, pressure)

See also

• 落ちる

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Korean

Hanja

去 (hangeul 거, revised geo, McCune-Reischauer kŏ)

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

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Hanzi

去 (pinyin qù (qu4), Wade-Giles ch'ü⁴)

Compounds

• 去病
• 去处
• 去粗取精
• 去掉
• 去根
• 去寒
• 去火
• 去留
• 去路
• 去你的
• 去年
• 去任
• 去声
• 去世
• 去暑
• 去伪存真
• 去污
• 去向
• 去杂去劣
• 去职

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Middle Chinese

Han character

去 (*kiù)

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Vietnamese

Han character

去 (khứ, khử)