去 qù

1. qù verb to go
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: In the sense of 往 (Guoyu '去' v 1; Unihan '去'; XHZD '去' 1)
2. qù verb to remove; to wipe off; to eliminate
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: For example, 君子去仁，惡乎成名？ 'If a superior man [junzi] abandon virtue, how can he fulfill the requirements of that name?' (Lunyu 4:5, trans. by Legge 1861; Guoyu '去' v 6; XHZD '去' 4)
3. qù verb to be distant
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 距离 (Guoyu '去' v 4; XHZD '去' 2)
4. qù verb to leave
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 离开 (Guoyu '去' v 2)
5. qù verb to play a part
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (XHZD '去' 5)
6. qù verb to abandon; to give up
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 放弃 (Guoyu '去' v 7)
7. qù verb to die
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 死亡 (Guoyu '去' v 3)
8. qù adjective previous; past
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Time
   Notes: In the sense of 过去 (Guoyu '去' adj; XHZD '去' 3)
9. qù verb to send out; to issue; to drive away
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 发出 (Guoyu '去' v 5)
10. qù particle expresses a tendency
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Function Words
    Notes: Used after a verb as a complement of direction or expressing a tendency or continuity (Guoyu '去' particle; XHZD '去' 6)
11. qù noun falling tone
    Domain: Linguistics 语言学
    Notes: In the sense of 去声 (Guoyu '去' n 1; XHZD '去' 8)
12. qù verb to lose
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 失掉 (Guoyu '去' v 8)
13. qù proper noun Qu
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Names , Concept: Surname 姓氏
    Notes: (Guoyu '去' n 2)

Contained in

• 绕来绕去(繞來繞去) meandering and circuitous; to go around in circles and never get anywhere
• 过去经验(過去經驗) past experience
• 眉来眼去(眉來眼去) eyes and eyebrows come and go; to make eyes; to exchange flirting glances with sb
• 挤上去(擠上去) to squeeze oneself up into (a crowded vehicle etc)
• 去处(去處) whereabouts; where someone has gone ; place
• 略去 to omit; to delete; to leave out; to neglect
• 去回票 round-trip ticket
• 闻上去(聞上去) to smell of something; to smell like
• 归去(歸去) to go back
• 去留 going or staying
• 去你的 get along with you!
• 来踪去迹(來蹤去跡) the traces of a person's movements; somebody's history; the ins and out of a matter
• 过去式(過去式) past tense
• 万般带不去(萬般帶不去) nothing can be brought away
• 搬出去 to move out (vacate); to shift out
• 不知去向 whereabouts unknown; gone missing
• 去芜存菁(去蕪存菁) to get rid of the weeds and keep the flowers; to separate the wheat from the chaff
• 涤去(滌去) to wash off
• 脱去(脫去) to throw off
• 过得去(過得去) can pass through (an opening); can get by (in life); tolerably well; not too bad; How are you getting by?
• 哭得死去活来(哭得死去活來) to cry one's heart out
• 去光水 nail polish remover
• 来鸿去燕(來鴻去燕) the goose comes, the swallow goes; always on the move
• 离去(離去) to leave; to exit
• 去根 to cure completely
• 相去 to be distant from one another
• 飞来飞去(飛來飛去) to fly about; to fly hither and thither; to flit; to swarm; to spiral
• 过不去(過不去) to make life difficult for; to embarrass; unable to make it through
• 一去不复返(一去不復返) gone forever
• 撇去 skim
• 去年底 late last year; the end of last year
• 走自己的路，让人家去说(走自己的路，讓人家去說) Go your own way, let others say what they like. (popular modern cliche) / Do it my way.
• 走去 to walk over (to)
• 好去 bon voyage; Godspeed
• 仙去 to become an immortal; to die
• 去死 go to hell!; drop dead!
• 泼出去的水(潑出去的水) spilt water; something that can not be retrieved; spilt milk
• 去来(去來) to go
• 出去 to go out
• 去垢剂(去垢劑) detergent
• 故去 to die
• 去向 the position of something; the whereabouts
• 相去万余里(相去萬餘里) each in a different corner of the World
• 去岁(去歲) last year
• 看不过去(看不過去) cannot stand by idly and watch; unable to put up with it any longer
• 褪去 to take off (one's clothes); (fig.) to shed (one's former image etc); (of a fad or the after-effects of a disaster etc) to subside; also pr.

Also contained in

周去非 、 不定过去时 、 去台人员 、 去声 、 归去来兮辞

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Truncated for common words

• 卷17　志第12 律曆中 Volume 17 Treatises 12: Measures and the Calendar 2 Book of Sui 隋書 — count: 237
• 卷九十七　列傳第八十五:　西域 Volume 97 Biographies 85: Western Region History of the Northern Dynasties 北史 — count: 113
• 卷18　志第13 律曆下 Volume 18 Treatises 13: Measures and the Calendar 3 Book of Sui 隋書 — count: 109
• 第二十四回 Chapter 24 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 105
• 第四十三回 Chapter 43 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 89
• 卷102 西域 Volume 102: Western Regions Book of Wei 魏書 — count: 84
• 卷三十八 志第二十八 州郡四 Volume 38 Treatises 28: Administrative Districts 4 Book of Song 宋書 — count: 84
• 卷三十三 志第十三: 曆二 Volume 33 Treatises 13: Calendar 2 Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 81
• 第二回 Chapter 57 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 79
• 第二回 Chapter 77 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 78

Collocations

• 欲去 (欲去) 欲去三桓 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 宣公 Lord Xuan — count: 10
• 去疾 (去疾) 以賢則去疾不足 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 宣公 Lord Xuan — count: 6
• 务去 (務去) 君人者將禍是務去 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 隱公 Lord Yin — count: 4
• 不能去 (不能去) 堯不能去 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 文公 Lord Wen — count: 3
• 子去 (子去) 武子去所曰 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 襄公 Lord Xiang — count: 3
• 去女 (去女) 逝將去女 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧魏‧碩鼠 Lessons from the states - Odes of Wei - Shou Shu — count: 3
• 谋去 (謀去) 晉人謀去故絳 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 成公 Lord Cheng — count: 3
• 去季 (去季) 欲去季孟 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 成公 Lord Cheng — count: 2
• 去群 (去群) 昭公將去群公子 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 文公 Lord Wen — count: 2
• 三去 (三去) 千乘三去 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 僖公 Lord Xi — count: 2