(gù) - old, former; reason; therefore (bound) in Mandarin
gùTraditional: 故
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Translation
old, former; reason; therefore (bound)
Word origin
A phono-semantic character: 攵 (the rap or strike radical) gives the sense of an action and 古 (gǔ, old) supplies both meaning and sound, yielding old, former and by extension a reason or cause.
- Origin
- phono-semantic
- Root
- 攵 (strike radical) + 古 (gǔ, old, phonetic)
Stroke order
故
Examples
。
He told a story.
。
This is a true story.
。
Tell me a story.
。
She deliberately did not tell me.
。
He deliberately pretended not to know me.
故 (gù) means old, former or reason; in everyday speech it lives chiefly in 故事 (gùshi), meaning story.
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Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 故.
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