去
qù
- Pinyin
- qù
- Pinyin (Plain)
- qu
- Tone
- 4
- Strokes
- 5
- Radical
- 厶
- Readings
- qùquTone: 4to 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)Order: 0Primary
- Stroke Order Code
- Speed
- Stroke Order Data
- ["M 532 554 Q 700 587 710 593 Q 720 602 715 611 Q 708 624 676 633 Q 645 640 611 628 Q 572 616 535 605 L 481 592 Q 406 579 324 571 Q 284 567 312 547 Q 354 520 417 533 Q 448 539 482 545 L 532 554 Z", "M 522 387 Q 528 472 532 554 L 535 605 Q 538 714 558 779 Q 561 791 540 807 Q 503 826 476 831 Q 458 835 450 825 Q 443 818 451 801 Q 476 765 476 740 Q 480 670 481 592 L 482 545 Q 481 467 478 382 C 477 352 520 357 522 387 Z", "M 497 351 Q 599 363 923 363 Q 945 362 951 372 Q 957 385 939 400 Q 881 445 840 436 Q 722 414 522 387 L 478 382 Q 297 363 86 340 Q 64 339 80 319 Q 96 303 115 297 Q 139 291 156 296 Q 288 330 436 345 Q 440 346 447 346 L 497 351 Z", "M 653 140 Q 518 121 378 100 Q 368 99 365 101 Q 362 105 370 114 Q 485 267 530 305 Q 546 320 537 331 Q 527 343 497 351 C 469 361 446 369 447 346 Q 446 340 448 329 Q 454 257 331 132 Q 304 111 266 89 Q 221 71 239 28 Q 240 27 242 22 Q 252 0 268 -7 Q 277 -11 289 -5 Q 403 61 657 116 Q 661 117 667 118 C 696 124 683 144 653 140 Z", "M 667 118 Q 733 7 743 1 Q 752 -2 762 6 Q 778 16 775 65 Q 775 123 616 241 Q 607 248 602 236 Q 598 223 607 209 Q 629 178 653 140 L 667 118 Z"]
- Meaning
- “去” most commonly means “to go” or “to leave,” indicating movement away from the speaker or current place (e.g., 去学校 = go to school). It can also mean “to remove/get rid of” something (e.g., 去掉 = to remove) and appears in many everyday phrases with this basic sense of going away or taking away.
- Metadata
- Locale: enCached At: 7/15/2026, 3:13:53 AM
Usage
In modern Chinese, 去 (qù) most commonly means “to go” and appears very early in textbooks and daily conversation. It’s used to describe going to a place or going to do something: 去学校 “go to school”, 去北京 “go to Beijing”, 去吃饭 “go eat”, 去看电影 “go see a movie”. Learners quickly meet it in patterns like 去 + place, 去 + verb, and in questions such as 你要去哪里？“Where are you going?” It also appears a lot with time words: 明天去 “go tomorrow”, 周末去 “go on the weekend”. Learners also see 去 in a few very frequent extended uses. As a direction complement, it can show movement away from the speaker, like 拿去 “take it away (over there)”. In grammar patterns, it appears in the “verb + 去 + verb + 来” structure for repeated or back‑and‑forth actions, such as 走来走去 “walk back and forth”. It’s also used in some very common set phrases, like 过去 “the past; in the past” and 去年 “last year”, where it takes on a more abstract sense of “gone by” or “previous”.
Handwriting Notes
「去」 in handwriting is usually compact and slightly taller than it is wide. Visually, learners can think of it as a small horizontal “roof” on top (two short horizontals) with a cross-like structure below; the lower part is the visual focus, so in casual writing that cross often looks more prominent than the top strokes. The overall shape should feel balanced vertically: not too top-heavy, and not so stretched that it looks like two separate parts. In real handwriting, the horizontals may be slightly slanted, and the lower vertical can curve or taper instead of being perfectly straight. The lower “cross” may look more like a plus sign, or the vertical may extend a bit beyond the bottom horizontal, depending on the writer’s style. In quick writing, strokes can connect subtly and corners become rounder, so 「去」 may appear more fluid and less boxy than in printed fonts. Modern AI handwriting recognition systems are trained to handle these variations—different slants, proportions, and stroke connections—so they can still correctly recognize 「去」 even when people write it quickly or with personal stylistic quirks.
Description
去 is a common verb meaning “to go” or “to leave,” often used before a place or another verb (e.g., 去学校 “go to school,” 去吃饭 “go eat”). It can also mean “to remove” or “to get rid of” in some contexts (e.g., 去掉 “to remove”).
Common Words
- 去qu4to go
- 撇去pie1 qu4skim
- 去处qu4 chu4place
- 减去jian3 qu4minus
- 去得qu4 de5can go
Example Sentences
我喜欢去。
wo3 xi3 huan5 qu4
I like to go.
撇去很常见。
pie1 qu4 hen3 chang2 jian4
撇去 is very common.
我们在学习去处。
wo3 men5 zai4 xue2 xi2 qu4 chu4
We are learning place.
这个减去很重要。
zhe4 ge5 jian3 qu4 hen3 zhong4 yao4
This minus is important.
请写一下“去”。
qing3 xie3 yi1 xia4 qu4
Please write '去'.