Kilo Lingo

(guò) - experiential aspect marker; to pass in Mandarin

guò

Traditional: 過

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HSK 2
#68 of 5,000 Core 1000

Translation

experiential aspect marker; to pass

Word origin

A phono-semantic compound: the 辶 'movement' radical signals going or passing, and 咼 supplies the sound. The character means 'to pass, to cross', and serves as the experiential aspect marker.

Origin
phono-semantic compound
Root
辶 (movement radical) + 咼 (phonetic)

Stroke order

Stroke order for 过

过

Examples

。

I have been to Japan twice.

？

Have you ever been to China?

。

Time passes so quickly.

菜cài。

I have eaten Japanese food before.

？

Have you ever watched this film?

Appears in 11 words

Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 过.

不过bú guòbut, however, only, merely过来guò láito come over, to come across过去guò qùpast, the past; to pass by通过tōng guòto pass through; to pass (an exam/law); by means of, through经过jīng guòto pass, to go through; process超过chāo guòto exceed, to surpass, to be more than难过nán guòsad, upset, to feel unwell错过cuò guòto miss, to let slip, to miss out on只不过zhī bú guòmerely, only, just, no more than过程guò chéngprocess, course, procedure穿过chuān guòto pass through, to go across, to cross

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