過
過 — gwa
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 지날 과
- Romanization
- gwa
- English
- pass, pass through, go across
- Mandarin
- guò
- Japanese on'yomi
- カ
- Japanese kun'yomi
- す.ぎる す.ごす あやま.ち あやま.つ よぎ.る よ.ぎる
- Japanese usage
- Jōyō kanji
- School grade
- Grade 5
- Newspaper frequency
- #285 of 2,500
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 辵 (162, 9 residual)
- Unicode
- U+904E
Parts that make up 過
- 咼 입 비뚤어질 괘 한쪽으로 비뚤어진 입‘와·과’ 계열의 소리
- ⻌ variant of 辶 네거리와 발가고 오는 일, 길 위의 움직임
How 過 was formed
Traditional analysis treats 過 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 辵, 咼.
Korean example words with 過
- 과다過多 Korean gloss: 너무 많음
- 과동過冬 Korean gloss: 겨울을 남
- 과소過疏 Korean gloss: 너무 성김
- 과반過半 Korean gloss: 절반이 넘음
- 별과別過 Korean gloss: 별다른 잘못
- 과신過信 Korean gloss: 지나치게 믿음
- 회과悔過 Korean gloss: 잘못을 뉘우침
- 과객過客 Korean gloss: 지나가는 나그네
- 과공過恭 Korean gloss: 지나치게 공손함
- 과월過月 Korean gloss: 이미 지나간 달
- 과승過乘 Korean gloss: 정원보다 많이 탐
- 과거過去 Korean gloss: 지나간 일이나 생활
Definitions from Woorimalsam, National Institute of Korean Language (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR)
Japanese words with 過
- 過去かこ the past; bygone days; one's past (that one would prefer remained secret)
- 過程かてい process; course; mechanism
- 過半数かはんすう majority
- 経過けいか passage (of time); elapsing; lapse
- 過激かげき extreme (measure, idea, etc.); radical; violent (language)
- 過ぎすぎ past; after; too (much)
- 通過つうか passing through (a tunnel, station, town, etc.); passing by (e.g. of a typhoon); transit
- 過失かしつ accident (caused by negligence); error; blunder
- 過剰かじょう excess; surplus; superabundance
- 過疎かそ underpopulation; low population density; depopulation
- 過労かろう overwork; strain
- 過度かど excessive; immoderate
Other hanja read “과”
Other hanja with radical 辵
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