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去世

qù shì

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word

去世 (qù shì) means "to pass away". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 去世 means

1. to pass away
2. to die

The characters in 去世

• 去qùto go; to go to (a place); (of a time etc) last
• 世shìlife; age; generation

Example sentences

• 54岁去世。
  He died aged 54 years.
• 汤姆去世了。
  Tom died.

Sounds the same

Read qù shì, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 趣事entertaining anecdote; interesting story or incident
• 去势to neuter; neutered
• 去逝to pass away; to die
• 觑视to look; to gaze

Where 去世 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Marriage, Death & Negotiations (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read qù shì correctly.
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