故
happening; instance; reason; cause; intentional; former; old; friend; therefore; hence; (of people) to die, dead
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Dict coverage rank #649 U+6545
How 故 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
攵 (semantic, “tap”) + 古 (phonetic, gǔ)
How to remember it
deliberately · Heisig RSH #342
古 ancient + taskmaster
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 古
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 古 (gǔ) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 古 sound component | gǔ | old, classic, ancient |
| 苦 | kǔ | bitter; hardship, suffering |
| 胡 | hú | recklessly, foolishly; wildly |
| 居 | jū | to live, to reside; to dwell; to sit |
| 固 | gù | to solidify; strength |
| 估 | gū | merchant; to estimate, to guess, to presume |
| 咕 | gū | mumble, mutter, murmur; rumble |
| 鸪 | gū | species of Taiwan pigeon |
| 沽 | gū | to buy and sell; of inferior quality |
| 蛄 | gū | mole cricket |
| 辜 | gū | crime, offense, sin |
| 祜 | hù | blessings, happiness, prosperity |
| 怙 | hù | to rely on; to presume; father (formal) |
| 钴 | gǔ | cobalt; clothes-iron |
| 罟 | gǔ | net, snare; to implicate |
| 诂 | gǔ | explanation; to comment, to explain |
| 骷 | kū | skeleton |
| 嘏 | gǔ | felicity, prosperity; large and strong |
| 轱 | gū | wheel; to revolve, to turn |
Words containing 故
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 平白无故 | píng bái wú gù | (idiom) for no reason whatever; inexplicably |
| 人身事故 | rén shēn shì gù | accident causing injury or death |
| 意外事故 | yì wài shì gù | accident |
| 故城县 | Gù chéng Xiàn | Gucheng, a county in Hengshui City 衡水市[Heng2 shui3 Shi4], Hebei |
| 人情世故 | rén qíng shì gù | worldly wisdom; the ways of the world; to know how to get on in the world |
| 一见如故 | yī jiàn rú gù | familiarity at first sight |
| 神话故事 | shén huà gù shi | mythical story; myth |
| 民间故事 | mín jiān gù shi | folk story; folktale |
| 故事线 | gù shi xiàn | storyline; plotline |
| 故地重游 | gù dì chóng yóu | see 舊地重遊|旧地重游[jiu4 di4 chong2 you2] |
| 不主故常 | bù zhǔ gù cháng | not to stick to the old conventions |
| 老于世故 | lǎo yú shì gù | experienced in the ways of the world (idiom); worldly-wise; sophisticated |
| 故人 | gù rén | old friend; the deceased |
| 故国 | gù guó | country with an ancient history |
| 故地 | gù dì | once familiar places; former haunts |
| 无故 | wú gù | without cause or reason |
| 温故而知新 | wēn gù ér zhī xīn | to review the old and know the new (idiom, from the Analects); to recall the past to under… |
| 故家 | gù jiā | old and respected family; family whose members have been officials from generation to gene… |
| 故事片 | gù shi piàn | fictional film; feature film |
| 事故 | shì gù | accident; CL:樁|桩[zhuang1],起[qi3],次[ci4] |