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  gu3   jyutping
  gu4   pinyin
[1] [adj] former; old; past; ancient
[2] [n] reason; cause; excuse; pretext
[3] [conj] therefore; hence; so; consequently
[4] [v] pass away; depart this life; die
[5] [n] old friend; acquaintance; friendship
[6] [n] incident; happening; event; accident
[7] [adv] intentionally; deliberately; on purpose

Default PoS: adjective Additional PoS: nounverbadverbconjunction
Stroke count: 9
Level: 1
Radical: (#66)

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

This word has been viewed 9431 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by sheik on 18th Mar 2007 21:22 and last edited on 18th Apr 2015 02:55

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detail  gu3 si6  gu4 shi4 = story, narrative, tale
detail  gwai2 gu3 si6  gui3 gu4 shi4 = a ghost story
detail  gwai2 gu3*2   = a ghost story
detail  gu3 ji3  gu4 yi4 = purposely; on purpose; deliberately
detail  si6 gu3  shi4 gu4 = accident
detail  jyun4 gu3  yuan2 gu4 = reason
detail  gu3 hoeng1  gu4 xiang1 = one's native land; hometown, native place
detail  gu3 zoeng3  gu4 zhang4 = glitch, breakdown, snag, fault, error
detail  gu3 ci2  gu4 ci3 = for this reason, on this account
detail  si6 bit1 jau5 gu3   = there must be a reason
See all 52 compounds (CantoDict reports 56 compounds in total, but some may be Common Formations)

Showing all 2 examples containing 故
detail 搞不好故意
He may have done it intentionally.
detail 呢個一個開頭光芒芒後尾黑壓壓故事
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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: This term is used in Mandarin/Standard written Chinese, not Cantonese.  
: This term is used in Cantonese, not Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.
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