去
qù HSK1

go away

去 qù
go verb
to go or go to a place

我要去超市。

wǒ yào qù chāo​shì.

I'm going to the supermarket.

go to do verb
used before or after a verb to indicate going in order to do something

我买菜去。

wǒ mǎi cài qù.

I'm going to buy groceries.

away verb
directional complement indicating movement away from the speaker or detachment

请把书拿去。

qǐng bǎ shū ná qù.

Please take the book.

remove verb
to remove, get rid of, or reduce

把这层皮去掉。

bǎ zhè céng pí qù diào.

Remove this layer of skin.

departing tone verb
in traditional Chinese phonology, the departing tone (third tone category).

‘看’这个字在表示‘看见’的意思时要读去声。

‘kàn’ zhè gè zì zài biǎo​shì‘kàn​jiàn’ de yì​si shí yào dú qù shēng.

The word '看' (kàn) is pronounced in the falling tone when it means 'to see'.

be apart verb
to be apart from in space or time

两地相去十里。

liǎng dì xiāng qù shí lǐ.

The two places are ten li apart.

past time word
of a time period; last or just passed

去年是马年。

qù nián shì mǎ​nián.

Last year was the Year of the Horse.

die verb
to die (euphemism)

老人已经去了。

lǎo​rén yǐ​jīng qù le.

The old man has passed away.

play a part verb
to play a role or a part in a performance

他在戏里去武生。

tā zài xì lǐ qù wǔ​shēng.

He plays the role of a martial male character in the opera.

send verb
to send

我给他去了一封信。

wǒ gěi tā qù le yī fēng xìn.

I sent him a letter.

Cross-References

Has old variant

Frequency
Character
Written text
64th most common 2461.3 per million
Movie subtitles
31st most common 4960.3 per million appears in 100% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
4860.5 per million appears in 100% of films
Written text
1596.5 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 1
HSK 3.0
Level 1
Strokes
5
Unicode
U+53BB

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)