越

surpass, cross over, move to, exceed, Vietnam

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:N3

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

tailor, judge, decision, cut out (pattern)

proceed, get, become, tend

overgrown, grow thick, be luxuriant

plantation, planting

rouse, wake up, get up

transcend, super-, ultra-

ride, board, get on, place, spread, 10**44, record, publish