去, originally a person leaving from a hole or pit, serves as semantic component as well as phonetic component to form characters.
In modern Chinese 去 means:
1.to go
2.to be apart from
3.of the past
4.to remove
5.to leave
Characters formed by the phonetic component 去
祛 佉 袪 抾 胠 阹 qū
叝 朅 鼁 弆 jí qiè qù jǔ
Characters formed by the semantic component 去
刦 刼 刧 劫 蜐 jié
却 盍 罢 丢 què hé ba diū