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The character "去" derives from an early pictorial concept of departure, originally configured to show a human figure moving away from an enclosed space or cavity, which conveyed the concrete action of leaving. Its modern form, interpreted as a combination of the components "土" and "厶", represents a structural simplification and reinterpretation of that earlier depiction over time. The meaning of "去" shifted from specifically denoting physical exit from a location to expressing general movement away from a reference point, as in "to go", and subsequently extended into more abstract applications such as "to remove" or "to discard", demonstrating a gradual expansion in its semantic scope within the language.
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我们去公园吧。
明天我要去上班。
去火车站怎么走？
他去年去了北京。
她喜欢去海边散步。
他决定去国外学习。
如果你不去，我会很失望。
尽管下雨，他们还是去了音乐会。