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

去

  • Meaning

    去 means "leave, past, remove."

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

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

    3. Remove - To take away; to eliminate.

  • Words using 去

    • 過去 かこ Listen the past; bygone days; one's past (that one would prefer remained secret)
    • 死去 しきょ Listen death; decease; passing away
    • 撤去 てっきょ Listen removal; taking away; dismantling (a building, facilities, etc.)
    • 除去 じょきょ Listen removal; getting rid of
    • 去年 きょねん Listen last year
    • 退去 たいきょ Listen departure; leaving; going away
    • 置き去り おきざり Listen leaving behind; desertion; abandonment
    • 去就 きょしゅう Listen leaving or staying; (one's) course of action; (one's) position

  • Four-character idioms with 去

    • 則天去私 そくてんきょし Listen selfless devotion to justice
    • 進退去就 しんたいきょしゅう Listen one's course of action; deciding what to do with oneself, whether staying in the present position or leaving it

  • Tattoo check: 去

    • Verified meaning: leave, past, remove
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • 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).

  • Onyomi

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    ko(コ) コ

    kyo(キョ) キョ

  • Kunyomi

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    saru(さる) さる

  • Strokes

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    5 strokes

  • Radical

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    厶 (mu)

  • Related Keywords

    leave past remove go depart abandon discard eliminate exit flee withdraw vacate forsake retire away

Sentences including 去

  • He was taken away by a policeman.

  • It is colder this year than last year.

  • He stopped smoking last year.

  • I lived in new york last year.

  • I climbed the mountain last summer.

  • We had more snow this year than last.

  • I heard about it from another source last year.

  • He said ,'' so long , my friends ,'' and left us.

  • I did not live in sanda last year.

  • Nobody knows why he left the town.

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