越 (Vietnam, cross over, exceed, move to, surpass) - Kanji Codex

越

Vietnam, cross over, exceed, move to, surpass

Readings

On'yomi (音読み)

エツオツ

Kun'yomi (訓読み)

-こ.す-ご.え-ご.しこ.えるこ.す

Nanori (名乗り)

えちえっおこえこしごえごしごや

Stroke Order

12 / 12

Information

Grade:8

Strokes:12

JLPT:3

Frequency:897

Vocabulary

エツ

Word	Reading	Meaning
越年	エツネン	seeing the old year out; greeting the New Year; passing the winter; hibernation; playing more than the usual 12 rounds in one game
上越	ジョウエツ	area on Japan Sea side of Japan, including Niigata
卓越	タクエツ	preeminence; excellence; superiority; transcendence
超越	チョウエツ	transcendence; transcendency
優越感	ユウエツカン	superiority complex; sense of superiority

オツ

Word	Reading	Meaning
越年	オツネン	seeing the old year out; greeting the New Year; passing the winter; hibernation; playing more than the usual 12 rounds in one game
檀越	ダンオツ	alms-giver; person who donates to a monk or a temple; dana-pati
越年蝶	オツネンチョウ	eastern pale clouded yellow (butterfly, Colias erate)
越年蝶	オツネンチョウ	eastern pale clouded yellow (butterfly, Colias erate)

Other

Word	Reading	Meaning
寄越す	よこす	to send; to forward; to hand over (e.g. money)
引っ越す	ひっこす	to move (house); to change residence
越す	こす	to cross over (e.g. mountain); to go across; to get over (e.g. hardship); to pass time (e.g. a winter); to surpass; to be better than; to exceed; to move house; to go; to come
越境	えっきょう	crossing a border (illegally); border violation; border transgression
越冬	えっとう	passing the winter; hibernation

Visually Similar Kanji

These kanji are easily confused due to similar shapes

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