去
qù HSK1

go away

去 qù
to go verb
to go to a place; to leave or depart; to go in order to do something

今晚可以去看电影吗？

jīn​wǎn kě​yǐ qù kàn diàn​yǐng ma?

Can we go to a movie tonight?

爸爸去巴黎寻找他们。

bà​ba qù bā​lí xún​zhǎo tā​men.

Dad went to Paris to look for them.

[direction] particle
Used after a verb to indicate movement away from the speaker, or used after certain verbs to indicate detachment or separation

我们现在可以下去了。

wǒ​men xiàn​zài kě​yǐ xià qù le.

We can go down now.

我都不知道你要搬去哪里。

wǒ dōu bù​zhī​dào nǐ yào bān qù nǎ​li.

I don't even know where you're moving to.

past nounnumeral
(bound form) last or just passed, used when referring to years or seasons
to die verb
to pass away; used as a euphemism for death

他一定是去了天堂。

tā yī​dìng shì qù le tiān​táng.

He must have gone to Heaven.

to remove verbparticle
to get rid of; to eliminate; to subtract or reduce

如果你愿意的话，把种子去掉。

rú​guǒ nǐ yuàn​yi de​huà, bǎ zhǒng​zi qù diào.

Remove the seeds if you want.

to be apart from verb
to be separated from a location or time by a certain distance
[extremely] adjective
(colloquial) Used after certain adjectives to indicate a very high degree or an extreme amount
to play a role
to play the part of a character in a play or opera
[falling tone]
(bound form) the fourth tone of Mandarin, or the third of the four tones in middle Chinese
to send
to dispatch or send out, such as a letter or telegram
surname
a Chinese surname

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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
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)