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Kanji Detail for 去 - "leave, depart, past"

  • Meaning

    去 means "leave, depart, past."

    1. Leave - To depart; to go away from.

    2. Past - Time that has gone by; former.

    3. Remove - To take away; to eliminate.

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    gone; past; quit; leave; elapse; eliminate; divorce

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    go away, leave, depart

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    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)

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    to go away, to leave, to depart

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    Opposite of 來 (come). Going from here to there. Such as 招之不來,麾之不去 (won't come when called, won't go when waved away). All leaving one's original position is called 去. Such as matters having 去就 (staying or leaving). Officials retiring is called 去職. | To discard. Such as matters' 去取, 去留, meaning choosing or abandoning. | What has passed is called 去. Such as 去年 (last year), 去日 (past days). | One of the four tones. Sounds that are mournful and distant are called 去聲 (departing tone).
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