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渡

dù

cross

Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 度 represents the sound.

Components
氵 meaning component

氵  Meaning component

shui, shuǐ

  

water

氵 is a component form of 水.

度 sound component

度  Sound component

dù, duó

  

measure

Evolution

渡 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
渡 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
渡 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

渡  

dù

cross, ferry over; ferry; to cross; to pass through; to ferry

Most common words with 渡
Freq.
Word
Meaning

渡

to cross

过渡

transition

渡过

to cross over

偷渡

illegal immigration

引渡

to extradite

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[d]ˤak-s

duH

dù

to ford


Statistics

HSK level 6

Appears in 11.3087% of movies

1894th most common character in movies

1406th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Unicode

U+6E21

Shuowen

“渡，濟也。从水，度聲。”


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