去: to go

 

去 qù

verb | adverb
: to go
: to cause to go or send (somebody)
: to remove; to get rid of
: (when used either before or after a verb) to go in order to do something
: to be apart from in space or time
: (after a verb of motion indicates movement away from the speaker)
: (used after certain verbs to indicate detachment or separation)
: (of a time or an event etc) just passed or elapsed

Kun Reading

さる saru

Godan verb with ru ending | intransitive verb
: to leave; to go away
: to pass; to elapse
: to be distant
: () to send away; to drive off; to divorce
: () (after a -masu stem, esp. of a suru verb) … completely
: (Pre-noun adjectival) last … (e.g. “last April”)

いぬ inu

Godan verb with nu ending
: (Archaism) to go
: to pass (of time)
: to die
: to go bad; to rot
: (Kansai dialect) to go home

去なす | いなす inasu

Godan verb with su ending | transitive verb
: to parry; to sidestep; to let go; to chase away

 Usage:

去年 qu4nian2: last year [きょねん kyonen]

去你的 qu4 ni3 de: go to hell!

去死 qu4si3: go to hell! drop dead!

死去 si3qu4: to die [しきょ shikyo: death]

去世 qu4shi4: to pass away; to die
[こせ kose: to depart from this world]

去掉 qu4diao4: to get rid of; to exclude; to eliminate; to remove; to delete; to strip out; to extract

去勢[势] qu4shi4: to neuter
[きょせい kyosei: castration; enervation]

去取 qu4qu3: to accept or reject

[取去る | とりさる torisaru: to remove; to eliminate]

去來 qu4lai2: to go and come
[きょらい kyorai: coming and going; recurring (esp. thoughts)]

下去 xia4qu4: to go down; to descend; to go on; to continue; (of a servant) to withdraw

上去 shang4qu4: to go up

擠[挤]上去 ji3 shang4 qu4: to squeeze oneself up into (a crowded vehicle etc)

出去 chu1qu4: to go out

进去 jin4qu4: to go in

失去 shi1qu4: to lose

辭[辞]去 ci2qu4: to resign/quit [辞去 | じきょ jikyo: leaving; quitting; retiring]

過[过]去 guo4 qu4: (in the) past; former; previous; to go over; to pass by

[かこ kako: the past; bygone days; the previous
: a past (i.e. a personal history one would prefer remained secret); one’s past
: (linguistics terminology) past (tense); preterit; preterite
: (Buddhist term) previous life]

Japanese common word | expression | idiomatic expression
去る者は日々に疎し | さるものはひびにうとし saru mono wa hibi ni utoshi
: Out of sight, out of mind

去る者追わず saru mono wa owazu
: do not chase the one who leaves (Confucius)

去る者は追わず来たる者は拒まず | さるものはおわずきたるものはこばまず saru mono wa owazu kitaru mono wa kobamazu
: do not chase one who leaves, do not reject one who comes

一難去ってまた一難 | いちなんさってまたいちなん ichinan satte mata ichinan
: (it’s been) one thing after another

Chinese idiom
呼來喝去 hu1 lai2 he4 qu4
: to call to come and shout to go (idiom); to yell orders; always bossing people around

呼之即來，揮之即去 [呼之即来，挥之即去] hu1 zhi1 ji2 lai2 , hui1 zhi1 ji2 qu4
: to come when called: ready and compliant; always at sb’s beck and call

死去活來 si3 qu4 huo2 lai2
: to hover between life and death (idiom); to suffer terribly; within an inch of one’s life

活不下去 huo2 bu4 xia4 qu4
: impossible to live on (~ melodrama)

眉來眼去 mei2 lai2 yan3 qu4
: lit. eyes and eyebrows come and go: to make eyes; to exchange flirting glances with sb

愛得死去活來 ai4 de5 si3 qu4 huo2 lai2
: to be madly in love

來無影，去無蹤 [来无影，去无踪] lai2 wu2 ying3 , qu4 wu2 zong1
: lit. come without a shadow, leave without a footprint: to come and go without a trace

舊的不去，新的不來 [旧的不去，新的不来] jiu4 de5 bu4 qu4 , xin1 de5 bu4 lai2
: lit. If the old doesn’t go, the new will not come.; You can’t make progress by clinging to old notions.