顾 gù
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 页 — page, sheet, leaf
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
顾
gù
to attend to, to look after
Character
Example phrases
- 他总是顾着工作，很少和家人一起吃饭。 Tā zǒngshì gù zhe gōngzuò, hěn shǎo hé jiārén yìqǐ chīfàn. He is always absorbed in work and rarely eats with his family.
- 他忙得连吃饭都顾不上。 Tā máng de lián chīfàn dōu gù bu shàng. He is so busy that he cannot even manage to eat.
- 你只顾玩手机，作业写完了吗？ Nǐ zhǐ gù wán shǒujī, zuòyè xiě wán le ma? You are only focused on playing with your phone — have you finished your homework?
Related words
- 顾客 gùkè customer
- 照顾 zhàogù to take care of
- 不顾 búgù to ignore; despite
- 顾问 gùwèn adviser
- 回顾 huígù to look back on
- 只顾 zhǐgù to be only concerned with, to solely attend to
- 顾及 gùjí to take into account; to consider
- 顾虑 gùlǜ concern; misgiving; to worry about
- 顾名思义 gùmíngsīyì as the name implies; literally, to infer the meaning from the name
- 顾全大局 gùquándàjú to take the overall situation into account
- 光顾 guānggù to patronise; to visit
- 后顾之忧 hòugùzhīyōu worries for the future; domestic worries