渡

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to cross; to pass through; to ferry

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Formation & memory

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Phono-semantic compound (形声字)

氵 meaning “water” + 度 sound ( dù )

Components 氵度

ferry · Heisig RSH #979

水 water + 度 degrees

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
大渡口区	Dà dù kǒu Qū	Dadukou, a district of Chongqing 重慶\|重庆[Chong2 qing4]
普渡大学	Pǔ dù Dà xué	Purdue University
过渡时期	guò dù shí qī	transition period
官渡之战	Guān dù zhī Zhàn	Battle of Guandu of 199 that established Cao Cao's 曹操[Cao2 Cao1] domination over north Chi…
大渡口	Dà dù kǒu	see 大渡口區\|大渡口区[Da4 du4 kou3 Qu1]
大渡河	Dà dù Hé	Dadu River in Sichuan
中元普渡	zhōng yuán pǔ dù	Ghosts' festival on 15th day of 7th moon
过渡性	guò dù xìng	transitional; bridging
远渡重洋	yuǎn dù chóng yáng	to travel across the oceans
官渡区	Guān dù Qū	Guandu, a district of Kunming City 昆明市[Kun1 ming2 Shi4], Yunnan
过渡金属	guò dù jīn shǔ	transition metal (chemistry)
渡头	dù tóu	ferry crossing point
渡海	dù hǎi	to cross a sea
明修栈道，暗渡陈仓	míng xiū zhàn dào , àn dù Chén cāng	lit. repair the plank road by day while secretly crossing the Wei River 渭河[Wei4 He2] at Ch…
渡口	dù kǒu	ferry crossing
渡河	dù hé	to cross a river
渡江	dù jiāng	to cross a river
渡轮船	dù lún chuán	ferry ship
过渡性贷款	guò dù xìng dài kuǎn	bridging loan
河姆渡	Hé mǔ dù	Hemudu neolithic archaeological site near Ningbo in Zhejiang, going back to c. 5000 BC

Characters sharing the sound component 度 — compare how they read.

Character	Pinyin	Meaning
度 sound part	dù	degree, system; manner; to consider
镀	dù	to plate, to gild, to coat
踱	duó	to pace, to stroll, to walk slowly