去世
qù shì 4–4
to pass away; to die
- Characters
- 2
- 去 · 世
- Syllables
- 2
- qù shì
- Frequency
- Less common
- corpus count 3,502
Part of speech: v,vn
Character by character
Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.
Example sentences
他最近去世了。
Tā zuì jìn qù shì le
He died recently.
他去世三年了。
Tā qù shì sān nián le
He has been dead for three years.
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Words with the same characters
These words share at least one character with 去世. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.
- 去qùHSK 1
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)
- 世界shì jièHSK 3
world
- 过去guò qùHSK 2
(in the) past; former; previous; to go over; to pass by
- 出去chū qùHSK 1
to go out
- 下去xià qùHSK 3
to go down; to descend; to go on; to continue; (of a servant) to withdraw
- 去年qù niánHSK 1
last year
- 失去shī qùHSK 3
to lose
- 回去huí quHSK 1
to return; to go back
- 世纪shì jìHSK 3
century
- 进去jìn qùHSK 1
to go in
- 上去shàng qùHSK 3
to go up
- 全世界quán shì jièHSK 5
worldwide; entire world
- 看上去kàn shang quHSK 3
it would appear; it seems (that)
- 世界杯shì jiè bēiHSK 3
World Cup
- 去掉qù diàoHSK 6
to get rid of; to exclude; to eliminate; to remove; to delete; to strip out; to extract
- 除去chú qùHSK 7
to eliminate; to remove; except for; apart from
- 过不去guò bu qùHSK 7
to make life difficult for; to embarrass; unable to make it through
- 去向qù xiàngHSK 7
direction in which sb or sth has gone; whereabouts
- 去除qù chúHSK 7
to remove; to dislodge
- 世界级shì jiè jíHSK 7
world-class
- 逝世shì shìHSK 7
to pass away; to die
- 辞去cí qùHSK 7
to resign; to quit
- 去处qù chùHSK 7
place; destination
- 问世wèn shìHSK 7
to be published; to come out