HSK Guide

过過 guò, guo — to cross, to pass by, to go through; to spend (time); to exceed; (unstressed guo) the experiential aspect marker

guò (fourth tone, falling) guo (neutral tone)

2 readings — the first is the most common.

Traditional: 過

to cross, to pass by, to go through; to spend (time); to exceed; (unstressed guo) the experiential aspect marker

6 strokesRadical 辵Frequency #43
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Pinyin

  • guò (fourth tone, falling)most common
  • guo (neutral tone)

to cross, to pass by, to go through; to spend (time); to exceed; (unstressed guo) the experiential aspect marker

Character breakdown

Ideographic description

⿺辶寸The sequence reads left to right and describes how the parts are arranged.

  • 辶meaning partno entry yetThe walking radical: the word is about covering ground.
  • 寸shape partno entry yetA simplification shorthand for 咼 guō, the phonetic of the traditional 過.

Mnemonic

Walking 辶 with 寸 standing in for the phonetic that simplification removed. As a full verb it is to cross or to pass: 过马路, 过桥, 过生日 to celebrate a birthday. Said without stress after a verb it becomes the mark of experience — that something has happened at least once in a life: 我去过中国, I have been to China; 你吃过饺子吗?

A memory aid written by HSK Guide editors. It is not an etymology and does not describe the historical origin of the character.

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