去
qù
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
To go — to move away from where the speaker is. The place follows directly, with no word for 'to': 去北京 'go to Beijing'. Before another verb it means going in order to do it: 去买东西 'go shopping'. Its opposite is 来 'to come'.
Đi, đi đến một nơi nào đó (rời khỏi chỗ người nói). Nơi đến đặt ngay sau động từ, giống tiếng Việt: 去北京 (đi Bắc Kinh). Đứng trước một động từ khác là “đi làm việc gì”: 去买东西 (đi mua đồ). Trái nghĩa là 来 (đến).
VerbRegister: neutral
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 063 (2026-11-14). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ · No Vietnamese entry is linked as its twin; the Hán-Việt reading is given character by character. Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Common questions
What does “去” mean?
To go — to move away from where the speaker is. The place follows directly, with no word for 'to': 去北京 'go to Beijing'. Before another verb it means going in order to do it: 去买东西 'go shopping'. Its opposite is 来 'to come'.
Is “去” formal or informal?
去 is generally neutral.