漢字Kanji · in States & Attributes
去: gone, past
Also: quit, leave, elapse, eliminate, divorce
土 and 厶 carry the meaning
Oracle bone · Shang Today
Oracle bone: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Three readings, and the words that use each
キョkyo · on'yomi · in compounds
- 去年きょねんlast year
- 去来するきょらいするcome and go
- 退去するたいきょするdepart, leave
- 死去するしきょするpass away, die
コko · on'yomi
- 過去かこthe past
さるsaru · kun'yomi · on its own
- 去るさるleave, go away
Also read -さる, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Ideogrammic compound (會意)大 man + 口 mouth, object
Top figure simplified to 土, unrelated to 士 (“scholar, gentleman”), while bottom simplified to 厶; a conservative variant is 厺.
Source: Wiktionary, 去 (rev. 93634992), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Keep it a secret! This radical represents the personal, private details of our lives that we choose not to share with everyone.”
Connections
Also read キョ
10 kanji share this on'yomiIn ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · qù
Same form: 去 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 去 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 去 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin qù most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.