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Jōyō kanji, Taught in grade 3

JLPT level: N4

440 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 5

Meaning: gone, past, quit, leave, elapse, eliminate, divorce

Kunyomi: さ.る, -さ.る

Onyomi: キョ, コ

Composition: 土 厶

去

Radical

Radical: 厶

Reading: む

Meaning: private

Strokes: 2

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Examples

Examples with audio

去年(きょねん)   last year

去来する(きょらいする)   come and go

退去する(たいきょする)   depart, leave

死去する(しきょする)   pass away, die

過去(かこ)   the past

去る(さる)   leave, go away

Onyomi Examples

去年 (キョネン) last year

去就 (キョシュウ) leaving or staying, (one's) course of action, (one's) position, (one's) attitude

消去 (ショウキョ) erasure, deletion, elimination, clearing, elimination (of variables), extinction

国外退去 (コクガイタイキョ) deportation

去年 (キョネン) last year

大過去 (ダイカコ) past perfect tense, pluperfect

不定過去 (フテイカコ) aorist tense (in Greek), past-perfective tense

Kunyomi Examples

去る (さる) to leave, to go away, to pass, to elapse, to be distant, to send away, to drive off, to divorce, to (do) completely, last ... (e.g. "last April")

去る者追わず (さるものおわず) do not chase the one who leaves

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