漢字Kanji · in Action & Movement
過: overdo, exceed
Also: go beyond, error
JLPT N312 strokesGrade 5Your ink: 白 Not met
- 咼(sound)
- ⻌road(meaning)
⻌ carries the meaning · 咼 gives the sound
12 strokes
Small seal · Qin Today
Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Five readings, and the words that use each
カka · on'yomi · in compounds
- 過去かこthe past, bygone days
- 過程かていprocess [n.]
- 過労死かろうしdeath from overwork
- 過渡期かときtransition period
- 過保護かほごexcessive care
- 過剰なかじょうなexcessive
- 経過するけいかするpass (time) [v.i.]
- 通過するつうかするpass through [v.t.]
すぎるsugiru · kun'yomi · on its own
- 過ぎるすぎるpass, go beyond [v.i.]
すごすsugosu · kun'yomi
- 過ごすすごすpass time [v.t.]
あやまちayamachi · kun'yomi
- 過ちあやまちfault, error, indiscretion
あやまつayamatsu · kun'yomi
- 過つあやまつerr
Also read よぎる, よぎる, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)辵 walk (meaning) + 咼 (sound)
Source: Wiktionary, 過 (rev. 92769052), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“This swooping radical is the winding road you walk upon! It curves under the rest of the kanji like a path being carved through a landscape.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side過 overdo · ⻌
vs渦 whirlpool · 氵In ChineseSimplified 过 · traditional, as in Japanese · guò
Japan keeps the traditional form 過; mainland China simplifies it to 过.
- Simplified
- 过 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 過 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin guò most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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