Characters · 5 strokes
去
qù to go
Where the shape comes from
A lid over a private enclosure in the oldest forms, long since abstracted. Learn it by its shape: 土, earth, with a small 厶 underneath.
土earth
厶a private enclosure
Write it
Watch the order first, then trace it with the guide, then write it from memory. The model comes back over your strokes so you can see where the shape drifted.
Press Watch to see the stroke order.
Stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi via Hanzi Writer, Arphic Public License.
Three words that use it
去年
qùnián
last year
回去
huíqù
to go back
出去
chūqù
to go out
Watch out: the mistake people make
Confusing it with 云, yún, cloud, which has the same lower part under two strokes instead of 土.