去

Meaning

去 centers on departure and removal: something or someone going away, leaving, or being eliminated. The divorce sense is a specific application of leaving a relationship.

• 過去かこ
  N3

  the past; bygone days

• 去年きょねん
  N5

  last year

• 去るさる
  N3

  to leave; to go away

• 除去じょきょ

  removal; getting rid of

• 撤去てっきょ

  removal; taking away; dismantling (a building, facilities, etc.); withdrawal (of troops)

• 消去しょうきょ
  N2

  erasure; deletion; elimination; clearing

• 死去しきょ
  N1

  death; decease; passing away

• 退去たいきょ

  departure; leaving; going away; evacuation

• 去勢きょせい

  castration; neutering; gelding; sterilization

• 置き去りおきざり

  leaving behind; desertion; abandonment

• 逝去せいきょ

  death; passing

• 立ち去るたちさる
  N1

  to leave; to depart; to take one's leave

• 消え去るきえさる

  to disappear; to vanish

• 走り去るはしりさる

  to run away; to run off

• 捨て去るすてさる

  to abandon; to throw away; to discard; to forsake

• 連れ去りつれさり

  abduction; kidnapping

• 取り去るとりさる

  to remove; to eliminate

• 過ぎ去るすぎさる

  to pass; to pass by

• 連れ去るつれさる

  to take (someone) away; to carry off; to abduct; to kidnap

• 去就きょしゅう

  leaving or staying

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