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過

guò, guo

pass

Phonosemantic compound. 辶 represents the meaning and 咼 represents the sound.

Components
辶 meaning component

辶  Meaning component

chuò

  

walk

辶 is a component form of 辵.

咼 sound component

咼  Sound component

guō, wāi

  

chat

Evolution

過 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
過 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
過 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
過 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

过 (過) 

guò

pass, pass through, go across; to cross; to go over; to pass (time); to celebrate (a holiday); to live; to get along; excessively; too-

过 (過) 

Guò

surname Guo

过 (過) 

guo

(experienced action marker)

Most common words with 過
Freq.
Word
Meaning

过

to cross

不过

only

通过

by means of

过去

former

过来

to come over

Component uses

Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)

撾

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*Cə.kʷˤaj

kwa

guō

tough, fibrous (vegetables)

*kʷˤaj

kwa

guō

to pass

*kʷˤaj-s

kwaH

guò

to pass; transgress


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 99.9519% of movies

39th most common character in movies

46th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Simplified

过

Unicode

U+904E

Shuowen

“過，度也。从辵，咼聲。”


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