去
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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)
- HSK 3.0
- Level 1
- Old HSK
- Level 1
- Strokes
- 5
- Radical
- 厶 +3
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 去
- Common rank
- #474
- Unicode
- U+53BB
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How 去 is formed
How to remember it
go · Heisig RSH #675
土 soil + elbow
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 去
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 出去 | to go out | |
| 去年 | last year | |
| 回去 | to return; to go back | |
| 进去 | to go in | |
| 去中心化 | decentralization | |
| 一去不回 | gone forever | |
| 有去无回 | gone forever (idiom) | |
| 不去理 | not to pay attention to; to leave sth as it is; to ignore | |
| 一来二去 | gradually; little by little; in the course of time | |
| 去光水 | nail polish remover (Tw) | |
| 过意不去 | to feel very apologetic | |
| 去台人员 | those who left China for Taiwan before the founding of PRC in 1949 | |
| 活不下去 | impossible to make a living | |
| 过不去 | to make life difficult for; to embarrass; unable to make it through | |
| 说不过去 | cannot be justified; inexcusable | |
| 过去分词 | past participle (in European grammar) | |
| 去离子水 | (chemistry) deionized water | |
| 来回来去 | repeatedly; back and forth again and again | |
| 转来转去 | to rove around; to run around in circles; to walk back and forth | |
| 去国 | to leave one's country |
Sound family
These characters use 去 as their sound component — compare how they read.