去 – gone, past, quit

5 strokesTaught in grade 3#440 in newspaper frequencyN5 vocabulary

The kanji 去 means gone, past, quit, leave, elapse, eliminate, divorce. Its on’yomi (Chinese-derived reading) is キョ、コ (kyo, ko); its kun’yomi (native Japanese reading) is さ.る、-さ.る (saru, saru). It is written with 5 strokes, under radical 厶 (no. 28).

Stroke order

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Readings

Type	Reading	Romaji
On’yomi	キョ	kyo
On’yomi	コ	ko
Kun’yomi	さ.る	saru
Kun’yomi	-さ.る	saru

A dot separates the kanji’s part from the okurigana (kana written after it), e.g. まな.ぶ → 学ぶ.

Radical and components

Radical: 厶 (Kangxi radical 28). Components: 土・厶.

Words using 去

去年きょねんlast year去るさるto leave過去かこthe past消去しょうきょerasure立ち去るたちさるto leave

Example sentences

ビルは去年の秋に私に会いに来た。

Bill came to see me last autumn.

Tatoeba #197333

１９００年に彼はイギリスを去り、そのまま二度と戻らなかった。

In 1900, he left England, and he never returned.

Tatoeba #235915

古き良き時代は去って、二度ともどってこない。

The good old days have gone, never to return.

Tatoeba #174604

Kanji with the same radical

参

Sources: KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0), KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0), Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). About the data.