The Chinese Radical: 去


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Meaning
to go away, to cause to go    去

Explanation

Used in these characters:
HSK 1
to go away, to cause, remove, get rid of

Top: earth, ground 土, bottom: nose 厶 (Image of a nose in side view)
When the nose is below the ground, it has gone away.  
HSK 3
law, method, way, Buddhist teaching

Left: water 氵, right: leave, go away 去 (Below ground 土 is the nose 厶, which has left.)
The water must be left: That's the law!  
HSK 3
foot, leg, base
jiǎo, jué
Left: body part 月/肉, right: retreat 却 (Leaving 去 in a bowed卩 position is a retreat.) [to leave 去 = Below ground 土 is the nose 厶 that has left.]
The body part for making a retreat [= the leaving in a bowed position] is: the foot.  
HSK 4
to retreat, to go back, but, yet
què
Left: leave 去 (Below ground 土 is the nose 厶, which has left.), right: bowing person 卩
Leaving in a bowed position is a retreat.  
HSK 4
to lose, to put aside, to abandon
diū
Top: any object ノ, below: to leave 去 (Below ground 土 is the nose 厶, which has left.)
An object, that has left: is lost.  
HSK 5
to arrange, to exhibit, to move to and from, a pendulum
bǎi
Left: hand 扌, right: cease, quit 罢 (In a drag net 罒 [cf. 网] you are left 去 and it will cease) [leave= 去 =Below ground 土 is the nose 厶, which has left]
The hand shall quit with arranging and moving things.  
HSK 6
to rob, to plunder, to coerce, calamity
jié
Left: to leave 去 (Below ground 土 is the nose 厶, which has left.), right: strength/force 力
If you are left by your strength, you will be robbed or plundered.  
HSK 6
to cease, stop, dismiss, suspend, quit
bà, ba
Top: eye/drag net 罒 (cf.网), below: to leave 去 (Below ground 土 is the nose 厶, which has left.)
In the drag net you are left: It's coming to cease.  
HSK 6
cowardly, timid, rustic
qiè
Left: feelings 忄, right: to leave 去 (Below ground 土 is the nose 厶, which has left.)
If your feelings left from you, you become cowardly.  
HSK 6
knock against sth hard, knock off (mud/dirt)

Left: stone 石, right: 盍 (leave, go away 去 [Below ground 土 is the nose 厶, which has left], bowl 皿)
Stones "leave" you and (fall) into the bowl, when you knock them off.  

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