故 (gu3 | gu4) : past, former; ancient

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故

gu3

gu4

[1] ancient; old; former; past; earlier; previous; antique [2] cause; reason [3] intentional; willful; on purpose; knowingly [4] [v] die [5] [n] incident; event; matter; happening [6] consequently; hence; therefore; [7] friend; acquaintance

Stroke count: 9

Level: 3

Radical: 攴 (#66)

This character is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

故

This character was added by sheik on 18th Mar 2007 21:22 and last edited on 8th Jul 2009 20:44

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故事 gu3 si6 gu4 shi4 = story, narrative, tale

故意 gu3 ji3 gu4 yi4 = purposely; on purpose; deliberately

事故 si6 gu3 shi4 gu4 = accident

緣故 jyun4 gu3 yuan2 gu4 = reason

故鄉 gu3 hoeng1 gu4 xiang1 = one's native land; hometown, native place

故障 gu3 zoeng3 gu4 zhang4 = glitch, breakdown, snag, fault, error

故此 gu3 ci2 gu4 ci3 = for this reason, on this account

鬼故事 gwai2 gu3*2 si6 gui3 gu4 shi4 = a ghost story

是必有故 si6 bit1 jau5 gu3 = there must be a reason 國

講故事 gong2 gu3 si6 = to tell a story or a tale, taletelling
See all 37 compounds (CantoDict reports 43 compounds in total, but some may be Common Formations)

Showing all 2 examples containing 故

他搞不好是故意的國
He may have done it intentionally.

呢個係一個開頭光芒芒，後尾黑壓壓嘅故事粵
This is a story that starts out innocently but ends up being very dark.
[Lit. this [counter] is one [counter] start bright, end dark [possessive particle] story]

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國 : This term is used in Mandarin/Standard written Chinese, not Cantonese.
粵 : This term is used in Cantonese, not Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.
No icon: This term is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

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Decimal representation of this word: 故
Unicode code for this character: U+6545 (off-site link)

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