去 (qù): meaning and stroke order
去 (qù) means to go, to go to (a place), (of a time etc) last, just passed, to send, to remove.
去
- Simplified
- 去
- Traditional
- 去 (same form)
- Pinyin
- qù
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Stroke order of 去
去
- qù to go; to go to (a place)
- 5 strokes
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Meaning of 去
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qù
- 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)
Radical and structure
- 去
- Radical 厶 (Kangxi radical 28) · 5 strokes · 土 on top, 厶 below
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Words with 去
- 上去 shàng qù to go up
- 下去 xià qù to go down; to descend
- 出去 chū qù to go out
- 去世 qù shì to pass away; to die
- 去年 qù nián last year
- 回去 huí qu to return; to go back
- 失去 shī qù to lose
- 进去 jìn qù to go in
- 过去 guò qù (in the) past; former; previous; to go over; to pass by
- 逝去 shì qù to elapse; to pass away
去 in our stories
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中午，大卫去饭店。
zhōngwǔ Dàwèi qù fàndiàn
At noon David goes to a restaurant.
From the story At the restaurant HSK 1
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马丽和妈妈去买苹果。
Mǎ Lì hé māma qù mǎi píngguǒ
Ma Li and her mum go to buy apples.
From the story Buying apples HSK 1
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八点，她去公司。
bā diǎn tā qù gōngsī
At eight she goes to the office.
From the story Xiaoyue's day HSK 1
Where you learn it
去 appears in the vocabulary of our HSK 1 learning material. This is a Mythic Mandarin word list, not an official HSK list.
Stories using 去
- At the restaurant HSK 1
- Buying apples HSK 1
- Xiaoyue's day HSK 1
- The first day at school HSK 1
- Taking a taxi HSK 1
- Ice-cold watermelon HSK 2
Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).