| 1 | 故 | 故 | gù | gu4 | happening; instance; reason; cause; intentional; former; old; friend; therefore; hence; (of people) to die, dead | | |
| 2 | 故事 | 故事 | gù shi | gu4 shi5 | narrative; story; tale | | |
| 3 | 故意 | 故意 | gù yì | gu4 yi4 | deliberately; on purpose | | |
| 4 | 故乡 | 故鄉 | gù xiāng | gu4 xiang1 | home; homeland; native place; Classifiers: 个 | | |
| 5 | 故障 | 故障 | gù zhàng | gu4 zhang4 | malfunction; breakdown; defect; shortcoming; fault; failure; impediment; error; bug (in software) | | |
| 6 | 原故 | 原故 | yuán gù | yuan2 gu4 | reason; cause; variant of 缘故 | | |
| 7 | 单点故障 | 單點故障 | dān diǎn gù zhàng | dan1 dian3 gu4 zhang4 | single point of failure | | |
| 8 | 革故鼎新 | 革故鼎新 | gé gù dǐng xīn | ge2 gu4 ding3 xin1 | to discard the old and introduce the new (idiom); to innovate | | |
| 9 | 故地重游 | 故地重遊 | gù dì chóng yóu | gu4 di4 chong2 you2 | to revisit old haunts (idiom); down memory lane | | |
| 10 | 故地 | 故地 | gù dì | gu4 di4 | former residence; once familiar places; former haunts | | |
| 11 | 故道 | 故道 | gù dào | gu4 dao4 | old road; old way; old course (of a river) | | |
| 12 | 故此 | 故此 | gù cǐ | gu4 ci3 | therefore | | |
| 13 | 故城县 | 故城縣 | gù chéng xiàn | Gu4 cheng2 xian4 | Gucheng county in Hengshui 衡水 , Hebei | | |
| 14 | 故城 | 故城 | gù chéng | gu4 cheng2 | old city | | |
| 15 | 故称 | 故稱 | gù chēng | gu4 cheng1 | ... hence the name (used at the end of a sentence) | | |
| 16 | 钻故纸堆 | 鑽故紙堆 | zuān gù zhǐ duī | zuan1 gu4 zhi3 dui1 | to dig into piles of outdated writings (idiom); to study old books and papers | | |
| 17 | 非亲非故 | 非親非故 | fēi qīn fēi gù | fei1 qin1 fei1 gu4 | lit. neither a relative nor a friend (idiom); fig. unrelated to one another in any way | | |
| 18 | 典故 | 典故 | diǎn gù | dian3 gu4 | classical story or quote from the literature; the story behind sth | | |
| 19 | 蹈常袭故 | 蹈常襲故 | dǎo cháng xí gù | dao3 chang2 xi2 gu4 | follow the same old path (idiom); stuck in a rut; always the same routine | | |
| 20 | 成语典故 | 成語典故 | chéng yǔ diǎn gù | cheng2 yu3 dian3 gu4 | historical or literary anecdote that gives rise to a saying | | |
| 21 | 沉船事故 | 沉船事故 | chén chuán shì gù | chen2 chuan2 shi4 gu4 | a shipwreck; a sinking | | |
| 22 | 不知何故 | 不知何故 | bù zhī hé gù | bu4 zhi1 he2 gu4 | somehow | | |
| 23 | 不谙世故 | 不諳世故 | bù ān shì gù | bu4 an1 shi4 gu4 | unworldly; unsophisticated | | |
| 24 | 薄物细故 | 薄物細故 | bó wù xì gù | bo2 wu4 xi4 gu4 | trifles; trivialities; trivia (idiom) | | |
| 25 | 病故 | 病故 | bìng gù | bing4 gu4 | to die of an illness | | |