逾
Tap the pinyin to hear it
to exceed; to go beyond; to transcend; to cross over; to jump over
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 辵 +9
- Structure
- Lower-left enclosure 左下包
- Traditional
- 逾
- Common rank
- #3,120
- Unicode
- U+903E
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How 逾 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
辶 meaning “walk” + 俞 sound ()
Components 辶 俞
How to remember it
exceed · Heisig RSH #306
road + slaughterhouse
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 逾
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 情逾骨肉 | feelings deeper than for one's own flesh and blood (idiom); deep friendship | |
| 不可逾越 | impassable; insurmountable; insuperable | |
| 年逾古稀 | over seventy years old | |
| 逾越节 | Passover (Jewish holiday) | |
| 年逾 | over (a certain age) | |
| 逾期 | to be overdue; to fail to meet a deadline; to be behind in doing sth | |
| 莫不逾侈 | there is no-one who is not extravagant | |
| 逾越 | to exceed | |
| 逾垣 | to run away; to escape |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 俞 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 俞 sound part | to consent, to approve; surname | |
| 输 | to carry, to haul, to transport | |
| 偷 | to steal; burglar, thief | |
| 榆 | elm tree | |
| 喻 | metaphor, analogy; example; such as, like | |
| 愈 | to recover, to heal; more and more | |
| 谕 | to proclaim; to instruct; edict | |
| 瑜 | flawless gem or jewel | |
| 渝 | to change; Chongqing | |
| 愉 | pleasant, delightful; to please | |
| 揄 | to lift, to raise; to praise; to hang, to flap | |
| 蝓 | snail | |
| 嵛 | a county in the Shandong province | |
| 腧 | acupoint | |
| 觎 | to covet, to desire, to long for | |
| 毹 | blanket, rug | |
| 窬 | door, window; a hole in a wall |