去

See also: 丟

去	U+53BB, 去 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-53BB

← 厺
[U+53BA]

CJK Unified Ideographs

厼 →
[U+53BC]

Translingual[edit]

Stroke order

Stroke order

Han character[edit]

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

Derived characters[edit]

却抾罢法

References[edit]

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

Chinese[edit]

simp. and trad.		去
alternative forms		㚎弆厺克 dialectal

Glyph origin[edit]

Historical forms of the character 去
Shang	Spring and Autumn	Warring States			Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Qin slip script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (去) (Zhengzhang, 2003)

	Old Chinese
佉	*kʰal
呿	kʰal, kʰas, *kʰab
抾	kʰɯ, kʰɯ, *kʰab
弆	kaʔ, kʰaʔ
祛	*kʰa
袪	*kʰa
阹	*kʰa
胠	kʰa, kʰas, *kʰab
魼	kʰa, kʰl'aːb
去	kʰaʔ, kʰas
麮	kʰaʔ, kʰas
鼁	*kʰas
砝	kaːb, kab
劫	kab, kab
鉣	*kab
蜐	kab, kab
怯	*kʰab

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 大 (“man”) + 口 (“mouth, object”). Top figure simplified to 土, unrelated to 士 (“scholar, gentleman”), while bottom simplified to 厶. There are various interpretations of the combination of “man” and “mouth, object”. One is that the ideograph represented a man with a hole marked in his crotch, with the idea of “anus” (i.e. getting rid of) (Schuessler, 2007). Another is that it represented a man departing from a cave or city.

Alternatively, it may be the original character of 呿 (OC *kʰal, *kʰas, *kʰab, “to open one's mouth”), the meaning given by the combination of 大 (“big”) and 口 (“mouth”). The meaning “to depart” would be an extension of the meaning “to open one's mouth”, as the lips depart from each other when one's mouth is open.

Shuowen Jiezi interprets the character as a phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *kʰaʔ, *kʰas): semantic 大 (“man”) + phonetic 𠙴 ().

In addition, 去 is also the original character of 盍 (OC *ɡaːb, “to cover”). The 大 could be a cover on top of an object 口.

Etymology[edit]

There were two pronunciations in Middle Chinese. The rising tone pronunciation originally meant “to put away, to eliminate” (causative of “to go away”), and the falling tone “to go away, to leave, to depart” (anticausative). The merger of the two pronunciations already happened in Old Chinese and most extant dialects do not observe this distinction now.

This word is of Sino-Tibetan origin with the basic meaning of "to get rid of". Compare Tibetan སྐྱག (skyag, “to spend, to lay out; dung, excrement”), རྐྱག (rkyag, “dirt, excrement”), Burmese ကျ (kya., “to fall, to become low”), ချ (hkya., “to put down, to bring down, to lower”).

Pronunciation 1[edit]

Mandarin
(Standard)
(Pinyin): qù (qu⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄑㄩˋ

(Chengdu, SP): qie⁴ / qu⁴

(Dungan, Cyrillic and Wiktionary): чў (čw, III)
Cantonese
(Guangzhou, Jyutping): heoi³

(Taishan, Wiktionary): hui¹
Gan (Wiktionary): qie³
Hakka
(Sixian, PFS): hi

(Meixian, Guangdong): hi⁴
Jin (Wiktionary): qy³
Min Dong (BUC): kó̤ / ké̤ṳ
Min Nan
(Hokkien, POJ): khì / khìr / khù

(Teochew, Peng'im): ke³ / ku³
Wu (Wiktionary): qi (T2); qy (T2)
Xiang (Wiktionary): qy⁴

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: qù
  - Zhuyin: ㄑㄩˋ
  - Wade–Giles: chʻü⁴
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chiuh
  - Tongyong Pinyin: cyù
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰy⁵¹/
- (Chengdu)
  - Sichuanese Pinyin: qie⁴ / qu⁴
  - Scuanxua Ladinxua Xin Wenz: kie / ky
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰiɛ²¹³/, /t͡ɕʰy²¹³/

Note:

qie4 - vernacular;
qu4 - literary.

(Dungan)
- Cyrillic and Wiktionary: чў (čw, III)
- Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰu⁴⁴/
(Note: Dungan pronunciation is currently experimental and may be inaccurate.)

Cantonese

(Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
- Jyutping: heoi³
- Yale: heui
- Cantonese Pinyin: hoey³
- Guangdong Romanization: hêu³
- Sinological IPA ^(key): /hɵy̯³³/
(Taishanese, Taicheng)
- Wiktionary: hui¹
- Sinological IPA ^(key): /hui³³/

Gan

(Nanchang)
- Wiktionary: qie³
- Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰie²¹³/

Hakka

(Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: hi
- Hakka Romanization System: hi
- Hagfa Pinyim: hi⁴
- Sinological IPA: /hi⁵⁵/
(Meixian)
- Guangdong: hi⁴
- Sinological IPA: /çi⁵³/

Jin

(Taiyuan)⁺
- Wiktionary: qy³
- Sinological IPA (old-style): /t͡ɕʰy⁴⁵/

Min Dong

(Fuzhou)
- Bàng-uâ-cê: kó̤ / ké̤ṳ
- Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰɔ²¹³/, /kʰøy²¹³/

Note: ké̤ṳ - "departing tone".

Min Nan
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Jinjiang, Kaohsiung, Tainan, Yilan, Hsinchu, Taichung, Philippines, Singapore)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khì
  - Tâi-lô: khì
  - Phofsit Daibuun: qix
  - IPA (Jinjiang, Philippines): /kʰi⁴¹/
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Kaohsiung, Tainan, Yilan, Singapore): /kʰi²¹/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Tong'an, Lukang, Sanxia, Kinmen, Hsinchu, Singapore)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khìr
  - Tâi-lô: khìr
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /kʰɯ⁴¹/
  - IPA (Kinmen): /kʰɯ¹²/
  - IPA (Lukang): /kʰɨ³¹/
  - IPA (Singapore): /kʰɯ²¹/
  - IPA (Tong'an): /kʰɯ¹¹²/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Taipei, Magong)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khù
  - Tâi-lô: khù
  - Phofsit Daibuun: qux
  - IPA (Xiamen): /kʰu²¹/
  - IPA (Taipei): /kʰu¹¹/

Note: khù - suburbs of Xiamen.

- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: ke³ / ku³
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: khṳ̀ / khù
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰɯ²¹³/, /kʰu²¹³/

Note:

ke3 - Chaozhou, Chenghai, Shantou, Jieyang, Pontianak;
ku3 - Chaoyang, Puning, Huilai.

Wu

(Shanghainese)
- Wiktionary: qi (T2); qy (T2)
- Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰi³⁴/, /t͡ɕʰy³⁴/

Xiang

(Changsha)
- Wiktionary: qy⁴
- Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰy⁴⁵/

Dialectal data

Variety	Location	edit 去
Mandarin	Beijing	/t͡ɕʰy⁵¹/
	Harbin	/t͡ɕʰy⁵³/
	Tianjin	/t͡ɕʰy⁵³/
	Jinan	/t͡ɕʰy²¹/ /t͡ɕʰi²¹/ 過～
	Qingdao	/t͡ɕʰy⁴²/
	Zhengzhou	/t͡ɕʰy³¹²/
	Xi'an	/t͡ɕʰy⁴⁴/
	Xining	/t͡ɕʰy²¹³/
	Yinchuan	/kʰɯ¹³/ /t͡ɕʰy¹³/
	Lanzhou	/t͡ɕʰy¹³/ /t͡ɕʰi¹³/
	Ürümqi	/t͡ɕʰy²¹³/
	Wuhan	/t͡ɕʰy³⁵/ /kʰɯ³⁵/
	Chengdu	/t͡ɕʰy¹³/ /t͡ɕʰie¹³/
	Guiyang	/t͡ɕʰi²¹³/ /kʰe²¹³/
	Kunming	/t͡ɕʰi²¹²/ ～年 /kʰə²¹²/ ～大理
	Nanjing	/kʰi⁴⁴/ /t͡ɕʰy⁴⁴/
	Hefei	/t͡sʰz̩ʷ⁵³/
Jin	Taiyuan	/t͡ɕʰy⁴⁵/ ～哪 /kəʔ²/ 上～
	Pingyao	/t͡ɕʰy³⁵/
	Hohhot	/t͡ɕʰy⁵⁵/ 來～ /kəʔ⁴³/ 吃～
Wu	Shanghai	/t͡ɕʰi³⁵/ /t͡ɕʰy³⁵/
	Suzhou	/t͡ɕʰy⁵¹³/
	Hangzhou	/t͡sʰz̩ʷ⁴⁴⁵/ /t͡ɕʰi⁴⁴⁵/
	Wenzhou	/t͡ɕʰy⁴²/ /kʰei⁴²/
Hui	Shexian	/t͡ɕʰy³²⁴/ /t͡ɕʰi³²⁴/
Hui	Tunxi	/kʰə⁴²/
Xiang	Changsha	/t͡ɕʰy⁵⁵/ /kʰə⁵⁵/
Xiang	Xiangtan	/t͡ɕʰie⁵⁵/
Gan	Nanchang	/t͡ɕʰie²¹³/
Hakka	Meixian	/hi⁵³/
Hakka	Taoyuan	/kʰi⁵⁵/
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/høy³³/
	Nanning	/hy³³/
	Hong Kong	/høy³³/
Min	Xiamen (Min Nan)	/kʰu²¹/ /kʰi²¹/
	Fuzhou (Min Dong)	/kʰɔ²¹²/ /kʰœ²¹²/
	Jian'ou (Min Bei)	/kʰɔ³³/
	Shantou (Min Nan)	/kʰɯ²¹³/
	Haikou (Min Nan)	/hu³⁵/ /xu³⁵/

Middle Chinese: /kʰɨʌ^H/

Rime
Character	去
Reading #	2/2
Initial (聲)	溪 (29)
Final (韻)	魚 (22)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	丘倨切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kʰɨʌ^H/
Pan Wuyun	/kʰiɔ^H/
Shao Rongfen	/kʰiɔ^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kʰɨə̆^H/
Li Rong	/kʰiɔ^H/
Wang Li	/kʰĭo^H/
Bernard Karlgren	/kʰi̯wo^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	qù
Expected Cantonese Reflex	heoi³

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*[k]ʰ(r)ap-s/

(Zhengzhang): /*kʰas/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	去
Reading #	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	qù
Middle Chinese	‹ khjo^H ›
Old Chinese	/*[k]ʰ(r)ap-s/
English	depart
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. [t] as coda may in fact be -t or -p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	去
Reading #	2/2
No.	10687
Phonetic component	去
Rime group	魚
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	㰦
Old Chinese	/*kʰas/

Definitions[edit]

去

to leave; to depart from
去世 ― qùshì ― to pass away
- 鳥乃去矣，后稷呱矣。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
  鸟乃去矣，后稷呱矣。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]
  From: The Classic of Poetry, circa 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version
  Niǎo nǎi qù yǐ, Hòujì guā yǐ. [Pinyin]
  When the bird went away, Hou-ji began to wail.
- 無幾何也，去寡人而行。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
  无几何也，去寡人而行。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]
  From: Zhuangzi, circa 3^rd – 2^nd centuries BCE
  Wú jǐhé yě, qù guǎrén ér xíng. [Pinyin]
  In a little time, however, he left me and went away.
to go to; to leave for
你去哪兒？ / 你去哪儿？ ― Nǐ qù nǎr? ― Where are you going?

Antonym: 來／来 (lái)
(before or after a verb) to go in order to do something
他到辦公室去請假。 [MSC, trad.]
他到办公室去请假。 [MSC, simp.]
Tā dào bàngōngshì qù qǐngjiǎ. [Pinyin]
He went to the office to ask for leave.

他去釣魚了，而沒去打網球。 [MSC, trad.]
他去钓鱼了，而没去打网球。 [MSC, simp.]
Tā qù diàoyú le, ér méi qù dǎ wǎngqiú. [Pinyin]
He went fishing instead of playing tennis.
(between two verbs) to; in order to
Used after a verb of motion to indicate movement away from the speaker.
下去 ― xiàqù ― to go down [ant. 下來／下来 (xiàlái, “to come down”)]

送去 ― sòng qù ― to send away
to send; to dispatch
to play (a part, a character); to act
(euphemistic) to pass away; to die
last; past
去年 ― qùnián ― last year
66th tetragram of the Taixuanjing; "departure" (𝍇)
Short for 去聲／去声 (qùshēng).
(literary) to be separated by; to be apart by
- 梁丘在曹邾之間，去齊八百里。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
  梁丘在曹邾之间，去齐八百里。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]
  From: Commentary of Guliang, circa 206 BCE– 9 CE
  Liángqiū zài Cáo Zhū zhījiān, qù Qí bābǎi lǐ. [Pinyin]
  Liangqiu is located between Cao and Zhu, and is 800 lis from Qi.
(neologism) what the hell; what; damn; fuck
我去 ― wǒqù ― what the hell

Synonyms[edit]

Dialectal synonyms of 死 (“to die”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		死, 亡, 歿, 卒
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		死, 死亡, 亡故, 喪生, 喪命, 去世 †, 過世 †, 逝世 †, 離世 †, 下世 †, 不在 †, 過去 †, 仙逝 †, 歸天 †, 歸西 †, 升天 †, 作古 †, 長眠 †, 閉眼 †, 故去 †, ‡, 故世 †, ‡
Mandarin	Beijing	死, 故去 †, 老 †, ‡
	Taiwan	死, 過世 †
	Harbin	死, 老 †, ‡, 伸腿兒 ¤, 伸腿 ¤, 蹬腿兒 ¤, 奔兒咕 ¤, 桿兒屁 §, 桿兒細 §, 吹燈拔蠟
	Muping	死, 老 †, ‡, 上西天 §
	Jinan	死, 歿, 過去 †, 老 †, ‡, 不在 †, ‡, 王八 §, 完蛋, 完錢, 完活, 無常 Hui, 歸主 Hui, 歸真 Hui
	Luoyang	死, 過去, 過世, 下世, 亡故, 不在, 升天, 去世 †, 老 †, ‡, 擱那兒 ¤
	Wanrong	死, 歿, 老 †, ‡
	Xi'an	死, 不在 †, 老 †, ‡, 無常 Hui
	Yinchuan	死, 走 †, 歿 Hui, 歸真 Hui, 冒提 Hui, 口喚 Hui, 無常 Hui, 完 Hui
	Lanzhou	死, 過世 †, 緩下 †, 躺下 †
	Xining	歿
	Ürümqi	死, 過世 †, 不在 †
	Wuhan	死, 過身 †, 去 †, 老 †, ‡, 去回 ¤, 翹辮子 ¤, 翹 ¤, 瓜碼子 ¤, 瓜 ¤, 西皮
	Chengdu	死, 過去 †, 不在 †, 去 †, 過世 †, 老 †, ‡, 撬桿兒 §, 撬桿 §, 翹辮子 §, 見馬克思, 歸天, 去陰國, 爬高煙囪, 落氣, 冰凊, 沒脈
	Guiyang	死, 過世 †, 成神 †, ‡, 百年歸天 †, ‡, 嗚呼 ¤
	Liuzhou	死, 沒得脈, 過世 †, 過身 †, 沒在 †, 哦嚄
	Yangzhou	死, 不在 †, 走 †, 家去吃去 ¤, 家去 ¤, 翹辮子 ¤, 翹 ¤, 駝條 §
	Nanjing	死, 過世 †, 歸天 †, ‡, 不在 †, 嗝兒得 ¤, 翹辮子 ¤
	Hefei	死, 不在 †, 老 †
	Singapore	死, 死掉, 死翹翹, 過世 †, 去世 †, 上天堂 †, 賣鹹鴨蛋 †
Cantonese	Guangzhou	死, 過身 †, 過世 †, 老 †, ‡, 百年歸老 †, ‡, 去別有天 †, ¤, 去大煙筒 †, ¤, 瓜 ¤, 瓜老襯 ¤, 收檔 ¤, 攞竇 ¤, 進竇 §, 瓜竇, 直, 瓜直, 死直, 攤直, 雙腳撐直, 伸直腳, 拉柴, 瓜柴, 褸席, 歸西, 歸天, 食黃泥, 入黃泥窿, 入窿, 玩完, 嫌米貴, 一 argot
	Hong Kong	死, 過身 †, 走 †, 香 †, 去 †, 唔喺度 †, 百年歸老 †, 賣鹹鴨蛋 †, 兩腳一伸 †, 仙遊 †, 去閻羅王處報到 †, 瓜 ¤, 瓜老襯 ¤, 拉柴, 瓜柴, 釘, 直, 歸西, 玩完
	Hong Kong (San Tin Weitou)	過身
	Hong Kong (Kam Tin Weitou)	過身
	Hong Kong (Ting Kok)	過身, 死
	Hong Kong (Tung Ping Chau)	過身
	Macau	過身, 去
	Guangzhou (Panyu)	過身, 死
	Guangzhou (Huashan, Huadu)	死
	Guangzhou (Conghua)	過身, 死
	Guangzhou (Zengcheng)	去歸, 過身
	Foshan	過身, 死
	Foshan (Shatou, Nanhai)	死, 過身
	Foshan (Shunde)	過身
	Foshan (Sanshui)	過身
	Foshan (Mingcheng, Gaoming)	死
	Zhongshan (Shiqi)	過身
	Zhuhai (Qianshan)	死
	Zhuhai (Doumen, Shangheng Tanka)	過身, 死
	Zhuhai (Doumen)	死, 過身
	Jiangmen (Baisha)	過身, 死
	Jiangmen (Xinhui)	死, 過身
	Taishan	死, 善, 去
	Kaiping (Chikan)	死, 登仙
	Enping (Niujiang)	過身, 死
	Heshan (Yayao)	死
	Dongguan	死, 老 †, 去返 †, 去舊時嗰處 †, 視埋眼 †, 伸直腳 †, 入罌 †, 拉柴 §, 去大煙筒 §
	Shenzhen (Shajing, Bao'an)	死, 過身
	Yangjiang	死, 過輩 †, 老 †, ‡, 老大 †, ‡
	Singapore (Guangfu)	死, 過身 †
Gan	Nanchang	死, 過世 †, 老 †
	Lichuan	死
	Pingxiang	死, 過 †, 走路 †, 老 †, ‡, 去
Hakka	Meixian	死, 老, 過身 †, 老壽 †, ‡
	Huizhou (Huicheng Bendihua)	過身
	Dongguan (Qingxi)	過身, 死
	Shenzhen (Shatoujiao)	死, 過身
	Zhongshan (Nanlang Heshui)	死
	Conghua (Lütian)	死, 過身
	Yudu	死, 過世 †, 過套 †, 過身 †, 轉去 †, 轉該背 †, 歸仙 †, 轉老外婆裡 ¤
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	死, 過身 †, 往生 †
	Pingtung (Neipu, S. Sixian)	死, 過身 †, 往生 †
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong, Hailu)	死, 過身 †, 往生 †
	Taichung (Dongshi, Dabu)	死, 過身 †, 往生 †
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin, Raoping)	死, 過身 †, 往生 †
	Yunlin (Lunbei, Zhao'an)	死, 過身 †
	Hong Kong	過身, 老
Huizhou	Jixi	死, 過世 †, 過輩 †, 過身 †, 不在 †, 過老 §, 過邊 §, 進棺材 §, 進風水 §, 翹扁 §, ¤
Jin	Taiyuan	死, 沒啦 †, 走 †, 過去 †, 老 †, ‡, 老客 †, ‡
Jin	Xinzhou	死, 回老家 †, 硬 §, 㞗朝天 of a man, vulgar, 倒蕎麥皮
Min Bei	Jian'ou	死, 過身 †, 老 †, ‡
Min Dong	Fuzhou	死, 過去 †, 過世 †, 過後 †, 歸西 †, 百歲 †, 老去 †, ‡, 堯街去 ¤, 堯生去 ¤, 溜翹 ¤, 殂 ¤, 去算米數 ¤, 去外媽食齋 ¤, 去外媽 ¤, 去䁐廬山 ¤, 去厝去 ¤, 睏長暝眠 ¤, 翹齋 ¤, 揭兜去 ¤, 拔直去 ¤, 上天去 ¤, 生去 ¤, 𣪟去 ¤, 䁐松柏樹 ¤, 䁐松柏 ¤, 轉祖 §
Min Nan	Xiamen	死, 過身 †, 過氣 †, 百歲 †, 百年 †, 百歲年老 †, 行去 †, 無去 †, 㾀 †, 老去 †, ‡, 老咯 †, ‡, 蟯 ¤, 蟯歹 ¤, 蟯癱 ¤, 行雞 ¤, 馬滴 §
	Quanzhou	死, 過身 †, 過氣 †, 百歲 †, 百年 †, 無去 †, 老去 †, ‡, 老咯 †, ‡, 行雞 ¤, 馬滴 §
	Zhangzhou	死, 過身 †, 過氣 †, 百歲 †, 百年 †, 百歲年老 †, 行去 †, 無去 †, 起身 †, 老去 †, ‡, 老咯 †, ‡, 蟯 ¤, 蟯歹 ¤, 蟯癱 ¤, 行雞 ¤, 誆牽 §, 㾀 §, 㾀歹 §, 馬滴 §
	Taipei	死去, 老 †, 過身 †
	New Taipei (Sanxia)	死去, 老去 †, 往生 †, 過身 †
	Kaohsiung	死去, 老去 †, 行去 †, 往生 †, 無佇咧 †, 過身 †, 轉去 †
	Yilan	死去, 老去 †, 往生 †, 無佇咧 †, 過身 †, 過往 †
	Changhua (Lukang)	死去, 老 †, 無去 †, 過身 †, 轉去 †
	Taichung	死去, 往生 †, 過身 †
	Tainan	死去, 老去 †, 行去 †, 往生 †, 無佇咧 †, 過身 †, 轉去 †
	Hsinchu	曲去, 去咯 †, 往生 †, 過身 †, 老去 †
	Kinmen	死去, 往生 †, 過身 †, 行去 †
	Penghu (Magong)	死去, 往生 †, 過身 †, 老去 †
	Singapore (Hokkien)	死, 馬滴, 死翹翹, 過身 †, 百年 †, 百歲 †, 過氣 †, 起車 †, 老去 †, 老咯 †, 行去 †, 蟯去 †, 吭跤翹, 交登記 †
	Manila (Hokkien)	死, 死去, 過面 †, 過身 †
	Chaozhou	死, 過身 †
	Singapore (Teochew)	死
	Leizhou	死, 過世 †, 過輩 †, 過目焗 ¤, 直筒 §, 刮薯減米 §
	Haikou	死, 過層 †, ‡, 老 †, ‡, 貓使 §
	Singapore (Hainanese)	死
Zhongshan Min	Shaxi (Longdu)	死
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	死, 瓜老襯, 過世, 歸西
Wu	Shanghai	死, 故 †, 過世 †, 嘸沒 †, 一腳去 †, 翹辮子 §, ¤, 彈老三 §, 翹老三 §
	Shanghai (Chongming)	死, 老 †, 故 †, 翹辮子 ¤
	Suzhou	死, 壞, 去, 過世 †, 翹辮子 §
	Danyang	死
	Hangzhou	死, 故 †, 過世 †, 翹辮兒 ¤, 到龍駒塢去
	Ningbo	死, 翹辮子 §, 過世 †, 嘸沒 †, 死脫 §, 燂茶, 山裡去, 吃豆腐羹, 嘸沒來的 †
	Wenzhou	死, 冇 †, 過輩 †, ‡, 蹻 ¤
	Jinhua	死, 過世 †, 過輩 †, 弗在 †, 老 †, ‡
Xiang	Changsha	死, 過 †, 去 †, 瓜, 彈, 彈四郎
	Loudi	死, 過世 †, 故 †, 上岸 †
	Shuangfeng	死, 過世 †, 故 †
Note	† - euphemistic; ‡ - usually of the elderly; ¤ - humorous; § - derogatory/disrespectful

Pronunciation 2[edit]

Mandarin
(Pinyin): qù (qu⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄑㄩˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): heoi³, heoi²

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: qù
  - Zhuyin: ㄑㄩˋ
  - Wade–Giles: chʻü⁴
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chiuh
  - Tongyong Pinyin: cyù
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰy⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: heoi³, heoi²
  - Yale: heui, héui
  - Cantonese Pinyin: hoey³, hoey²
  - Guangdong Romanization: hêu³, hêu²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /hɵy̯³³/, /hɵy̯³⁵/

Note: heoi2 - rare.

Middle Chinese: /kʰɨʌ^X/

Rime
Character	去
Reading #	1/2
Initial (聲)	溪 (29)
Final (韻)	魚 (22)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	羌舉切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kʰɨʌ^X/
Pan Wuyun	/kʰiɔ^X/
Shao Rongfen	/kʰiɔ^X/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kʰɨə̆^X/
Li Rong	/kʰiɔ^X/
Wang Li	/kʰĭo^X/
Bernard Karlgren	/kʰi̯wo^X/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	qǔ
Expected Cantonese Reflex	heoi²

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*[kʰ](r)aʔ/

(Zhengzhang): /*kʰaʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	去
Reading #	1/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	qù
Middle Chinese	‹ khjo^X ›
Old Chinese	/*[kʰ](r)aʔ/
English	get rid of
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. [t] as coda may in fact be -t or -p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	去
Reading #	1/2
No.	10684
Phonetic component	去
Rime group	魚
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	去
Old Chinese	/*kʰaʔ/

Definitions[edit]

去

to remove; to get rid of
去掉 ― qùdiào ― to remove

脫去 / 脱去 ― tuōqù ― to throw off

拆去 ― chāiqù ― to remove, to take off

去蝦腸 / 去虾肠 ― qù xiācháng ― to remove the intestines from shrimp

牛肉去咗啲腥味之後會好食好多。 [Cantonese, trad.]
牛肉去咗啲腥味之后会好食好多。 [Cantonese, simp.]
ngau⁴ juk⁶ heoi³ zo² di¹ seng¹ mei⁶ zi¹ hau⁶ wui⁵ hou² sik⁶ hou² do¹. [Jyutping]
Beef tastes much better after you get rid of the rankness.

去頭白蝦 / 去头白虾 ― qùtóu báixiā ― headless white shrimp

去中心化 ― qùzhōngxīnhuà ― decentralization
- 《基於矩陣補全的自適應去雨雪算法》 [MSC, trad.]
  《基于矩阵补全的自适应去雨雪算法》 [MSC, simp.]
  From: DOI 10.19734/j.issn.1001-3695.2018.10.0854
  “jīyú jǔzhèn bǔquán de zìshìyìng qùyǔxuě suànfǎ” [Pinyin]
  "Adaptive deraining and desnowing algorithm based on matrix completion"
to discard

Pronunciation 3[edit]

For pronunciation and definitions of 去 – see 弆 (“to hoard, to hide away”). (This character, 去, is a variant form of 弆.)

Pronunciation 4[edit]

For pronunciation and definitions of 去 – see 驅 (“to run quickly; to expel; to disperse; etc.”). (This character, 去, is a variant form of 驅.)

Compounds[edit]

Derived terms from 去

淘去
減去／减去
滾來滾去／滚来滚去
滾出去／滚出去 (gǔn chūqu)
生來死去／生来死去
番來覆去／番来覆去
病去
盡去／尽去
直去直來／直去直来
相去 (xiāngqù)
相去不遠／相去不远
相去咫尺
相去天淵／相去天渊
相去懸殊／相去悬殊
相去無幾／相去无几
相去萬里／相去万里
省慾去奢／省欲去奢
眉來眼去／眉来眼去 (méiláiyǎnqù)
眉來語去／眉来语去
看不下去
眼去眉來／眼去眉来
破壁飛去／破壁飞去
算來算去／算来算去
絕裾而去／绝裾而去
絲來線去／丝来线去
翻來吊去／翻来吊去
翻來翻去／翻来翻去
翻來覆去／翻来覆去 (fānláifùqù)
臨去秋波／临去秋波
茹魚去蠅／茹鱼去蝇
衡陽雁去／衡阳雁去
褪去
覆去翻來／覆去翻来
言來語去／言来语去
說不下去／说不下去
說不過去／说不过去 (shuōbuguòqù)
說來說去／说来说去
說得過去／说得过去 (shuōdeguòqù)
豁出去 (huōchuqu)
豬毋大，大對狗去／猪毋大，大对狗去 (ti m̄ tōa, tōa tùi káu khì)
賊去關門／贼去关门
走來走去／走来走去 (zǒuláizǒuqù)
踅來踅去／踅来踅去
踱來踱去／踱来踱去
進去／进去 (jìnqù)
過不去／过不去 (guòbuqù)
過去／过去 (guòqù)
過去式／过去式 (guòqùshì)
過得去／过得去 (guòdeqù)
過意不去／过意不去 (guòyìbùqù)
除凶去害
除去 (chúqù)
除殘去穢／除残去秽
除汙去垢／除污去垢
陰去／阴去 (yīnqù)
陳言務去／陈言务去
陽去／阳去 (yángqù)
雁去魚來／雁去鱼来
離去／离去 (líqù)
霍去病
顛來倒去／颠来倒去
高來高去／高来高去
鳳去樓空／凤去楼空
鳳去秦樓／凤去秦楼
鳳去臺空／凤去台空

References[edit]

“去”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
“Entry #1405”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (in Chinese and Min Nan), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.

Japanese[edit]

Kanji[edit]

去

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

to leave, to go away
past

Readings[edit]

Go-on: こ (ko, Jōyō)
Kan-on: きょ (kyo, Jōyō)
Kun: さる (saru, 去る, Jōyō); いぬ (inu, 去ぬ)

Compounds[edit]

Compounds

去(きょ)就(しゅう) (kyoshū)
去(きょ)勢(せい) (kyosei)
去(きょ)痰(たん) (kyotan): expectoration
去(きょ)年(ねん) (kyonen)
去(きょ)来(らい) (kyorai)
除(じょ)去(きょ) (jokyo): removal, elimination, disposal, rejection, relief (of pain, worry, pressure)
淘(とう)去(きょ) (tōkyo): washing away

Korean[edit]

Hanja[edit]

去 (eumhun 갈 거 (gal geo))

Hanja form^? of 거 (“to leave; to go away”).

Compounds[edit]

과거 (過去, gwageo, “the past”)