Radical 土

5 strokes

earth 土 (54a) + cocoon 厶 (34a) = go 去

See Character 15 for a reminder about what “pouring rain” stories signify.

上去 (42) shàngqù to go up

下去 (43) xiàqù to go down

Earth covers her cocoon so the butterfly is getting worried. “I won’t be able to go when the time comes,” she thinks. / Then, miraculously it starts to pour with rain and the earth is washed away, but the dwarf park attendant now mistakes the cocoon for a piece of chewing gum and puts it in his rubbish sack!