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What 故 means

happening; instance; reason; cause; intentional; former; old; friend; therefore; hence; (of people) to die, dead

Pictophonetic: semantic 攵 (tap), phonetic 古

Made of 古 + 攵

Words with 故

• 故事gù shìold practice
• 故事gù shinarrative; story; tale
• 故意gù yìdeliberately; on purpose
• 事故shì gùaccident
• 故障gù zhàngmalfunction; breakdown; defect; shortcoming; fault; failure; impediment; error; bug (in software)
• 缘故yuán gùreason; cause
• 故乡gù xiānghome; homeland; native place
• 已故yǐ gùthe late; deceased
• 何故hé gùwhat for?; what's the reason?
• 鬼故事guǐ gù shighost story
• 无故wú gùwithout cause or reason
• 童话故事tóng huà gù shìfairy tale

故 in a sentence

• 那不是我故意的。

  nà bú shì wǒ gù yì de 。

  That wasn't my intention.

• 你真的看到了这起事故吗？

  nǐ zhēn de kàn dào le zhè qǐ shì gù ma ？

  Did you actually see the accident?

• 您以前应该听过这个故事。

  nín yǐ qián yīng gāi tīng guò zhè ge gù shì 。

  You will have heard this story before.

• 汽车发生故障了。

  qì chē fā shēng gù zhàng le 。

  The car broke down.

• 他10年中第一次访问他的故乡。

  tā 1 0 nián zhōng dì yī cì fǎng wèn tā de gù xiāng 。

  He visited his hometown for the first time in ten years.

Characters that sound like 故

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