Read Edit View history 作古 zuògǔ to pass away Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 作古 zuògǔ to pass away (literary) to pass away; to die; used as a polite way to say someone has become a person of the past to innovate (literary) to break with tradition and establish a new precedent rather than following old rules Frequency Movie subtitles 0.240 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.373 per million Cross-References Synonym 去世 qùshì逝世 shìshì出世 chūshìAntonym 出生 chūshēng Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
作古 zuògǔ to pass away (literary) to pass away; to die; used as a polite way to say someone has become a person of the past to innovate (literary) to break with tradition and establish a new precedent rather than following old rules Frequency Movie subtitles 0.240 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.373 per million Cross-References Synonym 去世 qùshì逝世 shìshì出世 chūshìAntonym 出生 chūshēng Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)