verb #25,723

Meanings

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

Examples

HSK 5
Niánlíng yú liùshí suì zhě kě xiǎngshòu yōuhuì piàojià.
Those exceeding sixty years of age can enjoy discounted ticket prices.
HSK 7-9
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 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
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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