(gù) - to look after, to attend to (bound morpheme) in Mandarin
gùTraditional: 顾
Translation
to look after, to attend to (bound morpheme)
Word origin
A phono-semantic character (traditional 顧): 页 (the head or page radical, suggesting turning the head to look) carries the meaning of looking round and attending, with the left element supplying the sound.
- Origin
- phono-semantic
- Root
- 页 (head radical) + phonetic element
Stroke order
顾
Examples
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He is very good at looking after children.
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Please help me look after the dog.
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Thank you for taking care of me.
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Please look after the child for a moment.
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He only cares about himself and ignores others.
顾 (gù) means to look after or to attend to. It is a bound morpheme and chiefly appears in 照顾 (zhào gù), to take care of.
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Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 顾.
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