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去

Mandarin · pinyin qù

Meanings

  1. to go
  2. to go to (a place)
  3. (of a time etc) last
  4. just passed
  5. to send
  6. to remove
  7. to get rid of
  8. to reduce
  9. to be apart from in space or time
  10. to die (euphemism)
  11. to play (a part)
  12. (when used either before or after a verb) to go in order to do sth
  13. (after a verb of motion indicates movement away from the speaker)
  14. (used after certain verbs to indicate detachment or separation)
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去
qù · go away, leave, depart
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

heoi2 · heoi3

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character

  1. to leave; to depart from
  2. to go to; to leave for
  3. (before or after a verb) to go in order to do something
  4. (between two verbs) to; in order to
  5. Used after a verb of motion to indicate movement away from the speaker.
  6. to send; to dispatch
  7. to play (a part, a character); to act
  8. (euphemistic) to pass away; to die
  9. last; past
  10. 66th tetragram of the Taixuanjing; "departure" (𝍇)
  11. (abbreviation, alt-of) short for 去聲／去声 (qùshēng)
  12. (literary) to be separated by; to be apart by
  13. (neologism) what the hell; what; damn; fuck

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  1. to remove; to get rid of
  2. to discard

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去 · qu4
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Exact source record去 去 [qu4] /to 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)/