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

• 抓去 to arrest and take away
• 去皮 to peel; to remove the skin; to tare
• 去光水 nail polish remover
• 去垢剂(去垢劑) detergent
• 绕来绕去(繞來繞去) meandering and circuitous; to go around in circles and never get anywhere
• 不定过去(不定過去) aorist
• 撇去 skim
• 归去来兮(歸去來兮) come back immediately
• 搬出去 to move out (vacate); to shift out
• 死去活来(死去活來) to hover between life and death; to suffer terribly; within an inch of one's life
• 放眼望去 as far as the eye can see
• 一去不回 gone forever
• 眉来眼去(眉來眼去) eyes and eyebrows come and go; to make eyes; to exchange flirting glances with sb
• 过去时(過去時) past tense
• 带着希望去旅行，比到达终点更美好(帶著希望去旅行，比到達終點更美好) It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive.
• 听不进去(聽不進去) not to listen; to be deaf to
• 去皮重 to tare
• 去掉 to dispel; to eliminate; to remove
• 来龙去脉(來龍去脈) the rise and fall of the terrain; the whole sequence of events; causes and effects
• 去国外(去國外) to go abroad
• 过去经验(過去經驗) past experience
• 一去无影踪(一去無影蹤) gone without a trace
• 去岁(去歲) last year
• 闻上去(聞上去) to smell of something; to smell like
• 取其精华，去其糟粕(取其精華，去其糟粕) take the cream, discard the dross (political and educational slogan); keep what is good, discard the rest; You need to be selective when studying.
• 去职(去職) to leave office
• 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.
• 剪去 to cut off
• 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.
• 移去 to move away
• 番来覆去(番來覆去) to toss and turn; be restless; not able to sleep
• 去世 to pass away; to die
• 往心里去(往心裡去) to take something to heart; to take seriously
• 归去(歸去) to go back
• 来回来去(來回來去) repeatedly; back and forth again
• 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
• 占去(佔去) to take up (one's time etc); to occupy (one's attention etc); to account for (a proportion of sth)
• 略去 to omit; to delete; to leave out; to neglect
• 删去(刪去) to delete
• 我去 dang!; shoot!
• 过去式(過去式) past tense
• 奄去 to suddenly go
• 来无影，去无踪(來無影，去無蹤) come without a shadow, leave without a footprint; to come and go without a trace
• 去氧麻黄碱(去氧麻黃鹼) methamphetamine
• 听上去(聽上去) to sound (difficult, worthwhile etc); to seem
• 呼来喝去(呼來喝去) to call to come and shout to go; to yell orders; always bossing people around
• 去年底 late last year; the end of last year

Also contained in

去台 、 归去来兮辞 、 归去来辞 、 不定过去时

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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

• 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: 11
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 遂去 (遂去) 遂去之 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 僖公 Lord Xi — count: 2
• 大去 (大去) 紀侯大去其國 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 莊公 Lord Zhang — count: 2