去

Glyph origin
. Top figure simplified to, unrelated to , while bottom simplified to. There are various interpretations of the combination of “man” and “mouth, object”. One is that the ideograph represented a man with a hole marked in his crotch, with the idea of “anus” (i.e. getting rid of). Another is that it represented a man departing from a cave or city.

Alternatively, it may be the original character of, the meaning given by the combination of and. The meaning “to depart” would be an extension of the meaning “to open one's mouth”, as the lips depart from each other when one's mouth is open.

interprets the character as a.

In addition, 去 is also the original character of. The could be a cover on top of an object.

Etymology
There were two pronunciations in Middle Chinese. The rising tone pronunciation originally meant “to put away, to eliminate” (causative of “to go away”), and the falling tone “to go away, to leave, to depart” (anticausative). The merger of the two pronunciations already happened in Old Chinese and most extant dialects do not observe this distinction now.

This word is of Sino-Tibetan origin with the basic meaning of "to get rid of". Compare 🇨🇬,, 🇨🇬,.

Definitions

 * 1) to leave; to depart from
 * 2) to go to; to leave for
 * 3)  to go in order to do something
 * 4)  to; in order to
 * 5) to send; to dispatch
 * 6) to play ; to act
 * 7)  to pass away; to die
 * 8) last; past
 * 9) 66th tetragram of the Taixuanjing; "departure" (𝍇)
 * 10)  to be separated by; to be apart by
 * 11)  what the hell; what; damn; fuck
 * 1) to send; to dispatch
 * 2) to play ; to act
 * 3)  to pass away; to die
 * 4) last; past
 * 5) 66th tetragram of the Taixuanjing; "departure" (𝍇)
 * 6)  to be separated by; to be apart by
 * 7)  what the hell; what; damn; fuck
 * 1) 66th tetragram of the Taixuanjing; "departure" (𝍇)
 * 2)  to be separated by; to be apart by
 * 3)  what the hell; what; damn; fuck
 * 1)  to be separated by; to be apart by
 * 2)  what the hell; what; damn; fuck
 * 1)  what the hell; what; damn; fuck

Definitions

 * 1) to remove; to get rid of
 * 2) to discard
 * 1) to discard
 * 1) to discard
 * 1) to discard
 * 1) to discard
 * 1) to discard
 * 1) to discard
 * 1) to discard
 * 1) to discard
 * 1) to discard

Kanji

 * 1) to leave, to go away
 * 2) past