verb #25,723

Meanings

  1. 1 to exceed
  2. 2 to go beyond
  3. 3 to transgress
  4. 4 to surpass

Examples

Niánlíng yú liùshí suì zhě kě xiǎngshòu yōuhuì piàojià.
Those exceeding sixty years of age can enjoy discounted ticket prices.
Yúqī wèi huánkuǎn jiāng chǎnshēng zhìnàjīn.
Failure to repay past the due date will incur a late fee.

Tips

register
is formal/written Chinese. In everyday speech, 超过 (chāoguò) is used instead. appears frequently in legal documents, formal notices, and classical texts.

Components

radical
chuò
walk; advance (radical form)
Bottom-left walk radical (the side-form of ) — the indexing radical. Wraps under the phonetic, pictures a foot stepping along a path. Anchors in the motion family with to cross, to exceed, to advance. Here the radical marks the act of crossing over a boundary or exceeding a limit.
phonetic
to consent; canoe (here phonetic)
Upper-right supplies the sound yú, an exact match with no drift. The original pictograph showed a dugout boat being hollowed out; that 'pass through, cross over' flavour echoes faintly here. Same phonetic powers happy, to steal, to lose, to liken — a tight yú-family.

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