Pass away in Chinese
to pass away · HSK 5
去世
- 去 to go
- 世 world
他的爷爷去年去世了。 His grandfather passed away last year.
Other ways to say pass away
More words with 去 or 世
How do you say pass away in Chinese?
Pass away in Chinese is 去世 (qù shì). You can also say 过去 (guò qu).
Which word should I use?
Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.
Where do these words come from?
Our own dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.
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