Chinese words starting with “qu”
30 words in our HSK vocabulary start with the syllable qu. They are sorted by how common they are, so the ones you are most likely to meet come first. The 6 most useful of them have their own page — they are listed first below.
Initial q · final ü · hear the four tones and see example characters →
- 1st tone 10
- 2nd tone 1
- 3rd tone 13
- 4th tone 6
Word counts by tone are counted on the first syllable of each word.
Common words with this syllable
- 去年qù niánHSK 1
last year
- 取得qǔ déHSK 2
to acquire; to get; to obtain
- 区域qū yùHSK 5
area; region; district
- 取消qǔ xiāoHSK 3
to cancel; cancellation
- 区别qū biéHSK 3
difference; to distinguish; to discriminate; to make a distinction
- 去世qù shìHSK 3
to pass away; to die
All 30 words
| # | Word | Pinyin | POS | Meaning | Study list |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 去 | qù | v | to go; to go to (a place); (of a time etc) last; just passed; to send; to remove; to get rid of; to reduce; to be apart from in space or time; to die (euphemism); to play (a part); (when used either before or after a verb) to go in order to do sth; (after a verb of motion indicates movement away from the speaker); (used after certain verbs to indicate detachment or separation) | |
| 2 | 区 | qū | n | area; region; district; small; distinguish | |
| 3 | 取 | qǔ | v | to take; to get; to choose; to fetch | |
| 4 | 曲 | qū | g,n,q,v | bent; crooked; wrong | |
| 5 | 娶 | qǔ | v | to take a wife; to marry (a woman) | |
| 6 | 取决于 | qǔ jué yú | v | to hinge on; to be decided by; to depend on | |
| 7 | 取代 | qǔ dài | v | to replace; to supersede; to supplant; (chemistry) substitution | |
| 8 | 渠道 | qú dào | n | irrigation ditch; (fig.) channel; means | |
| 9 | 曲线 | qū xiàn | n | curve; curved line; indirect; in a roundabout way | |
| 10 | 趋势 | qū shì | n | trend; tendency | |
| 11 | 区分 | qū fēn | v,vn | to differentiate; to draw a distinction; to divide into categories | |
| 12 | 取胜 | qǔ shèng | v,vn | to score a victory; to prevail over one's opponents | |
| 13 | 去掉 | qù diào | v | to get rid of; to exclude; to eliminate; to remove; to delete; to strip out; to extract | |
| 14 | 曲子 | qǔ zi | n | poem for singing; tune; music | |
| 15 | 去向 | qù xiàng | n | direction in which sb or sth has gone; whereabouts | |
| 16 | 驱逐 | qū zhú | v,vn | to expel; to deport; banishment | |
| 17 | 去除 | qù chú | v | to remove; to dislodge | |
| 18 | 屈服 | qū fú | v | to surrender; to succumb; to yield; (as a transitive verb) to defeat; to prevail over | |
| 19 | 驱动 | qū dòng | vn,v | to drive; to propel; drive (vehicle wheel); drive mechanism (tape or disk); device driver (computing software) | |
| 20 | 取暖 | qǔ nuǎn | v,vn | to warm oneself (by a fire etc) | |
| 21 | 趣味 | qù wèi | n | fun; interest; delight; taste; liking; preference | |
| 22 | 曲折 | qū zhé | a,an | winding; (fig.) complicated | |
| 23 | 取款 | qǔ kuǎn | v,vn | to withdraw money from a bank | |
| 24 | 取笑 | qǔ xiào | v | to tease; to make fun of | |
| 25 | 去处 | qù chù | n | place; destination | |
| 26 | 取而代之 | qǔ ér dài zhī | v | (idiom) to replace; to supersede; to take its (or her etc) place | |
| 27 | 趋于 | qū yú | v | to tend towards | |
| 28 | 取缔 | qǔ dì | v | to suppress; to crack down on; to prohibit | |
| 29 | 取经 | qǔ jīng | v | to journey to India on a quest for the Buddhist scriptures; to learn by studying another's experience | |
| 30 | 取款机 | qǔ kuǎn jī | ATM |
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