qù
go away
Depicts opening the mouth (口) wide (大) to let a yawn leave the mouth. Original form of 呿.

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
Modernqù
go away, leave, depart; 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)
Iconic component in 1 character (1 verified)
Simplified component in 1 character (1 verified)
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[kʰ](r)aʔ | khjoX | qù | get rid of |
*[k]ʰ(r)ap-s | khjoH | qù | depart |
HSK level 1
Appears in 99.9680% of movies
31st most common character in movies
64th most common character in books
Strokes | 5 |
Unicode | U+53BB |
Shuowen | “去,人相違也。从大,凵聲。” |
季旭昇《說文新證》p.421
