去

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

• 却

• 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

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

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, and the inventors of writing had perhaps “anus” (i.e. getting rid of) in mind (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 is a cover on top of an object 口.

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”).

去

1. to leave; to depart from

   去世  ―  qùshì  ―  to pass away

2. to go to; to leave for

   Antonyms: 來／来 (lái)

   你去哪兒？ / 你去哪儿？  ―  Nǐ qù nǎr?  ―  Where are you going?

3. (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.

4. (between two verbs) to; in order to
5. Particle used after a verb of motion to indicates 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
6. to send; to dispatch
7. to play (a part, a character); to act
8. to remove, to be removed

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

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

   去中心化  ―  qùzhōngxīnhuà  ―  decentralization

9. last; past
   • 去年  ―  qùnián  ―  last year
10. 66th tetragram of the Taixuanjing; "departure" (𝍇)
11. Short for 去聲／去声 (qùshēng).
12. (neologism) what the hell; what; damn; fuck

    我去  ―  wǒqù  ―  what the hell

去

1. 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
2. to discard

• “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.

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. to leave, to go away

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

• 落 (お)ちる (ochiru)

去 • (geo) (hangeul 거, revised geo, McCune–Reischauer kŏ)

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去 (khứ, khử)

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