故 (gù)
cause; reason; old; former; intentional
How 故 is written
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 十 — ten
- Traditional
- 故
- Simplified
- 故 (unchanged)
Common words using 故
- 故事 gùshì
- old practice; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 世故 shìgù
- the ways of the world
- 事故 shìgù
- accident; CL:樁|桩[zhuang1],起[qi3],次[ci4]
- 故人 gùrén
- old friend
- 故作 gùzuò
- to pretend; to feign
- 故宮 gùgōng
- the Forbidden City; abbr. for 故宮博物院|故宫博物院[Gu4 gong1 Bo2 wu4 yuan4]
- 故居 gùjū
- former residence
- 故意 gùyì
- deliberately; on purpose
- 故鄉 gùxiāng
- home; homeland; native place
- 故障 gùzhàng
- malfunction; breakdown; defect
- 無緣無故 wúyuánwúgù
- no cause, no reason (idiom); completely uncalled for
- 緣故 yuángù
- reason; cause
故 in a sentence
他不是故意的，你就原諒他吧。
Tā búshì gùyì de, nǐ jiù yuánliàng tā ba.
“He didn't do it on purpose, just forgive him.”
How common is 故?
故 is the 572nd most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 78.6% of all running text.
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