HSK Guide

经过經過 jīngguò — to pass by, to go through (a place)

jīngguò (first tone, high and level)jing1guo4

Traditional: 經過

to pass by, to go through (a place)

HSK 3· HSK 1–4 (classic)Level 3· Three-band, nine-level standardverbpreposition
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Meanings

  1. to pass by, to go through (a place)

    Going past or through somewhere on the way to somewhere else. Unlike 过, it names the place explicitly: 经过银行, past the bank.

    verb

  2. after, through (a stretch of time or effort)

    preposition

    In this second sense 经过 opens the sentence and takes a stretch of time or a process: 经过一年的学习…. It is the same idea of passing through, applied to time instead of space.

Character breakdown

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

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

    6 strokes⿺辶寸Radical 辵

Example sentences

  • 我每天经过这条街道。我每天經過這條街道。Wǒ (third tone, dipping) měi (third tone, dipping) tiān (first tone, high and level) jīngguò (first tone, high and level) zhè (fourth tone, falling) tiáo (second tone, rising) jiēdào. (first tone, high and level)···

    I go along this street every day.

  • 经过一年的学习，他的汉语好多了。經過一年的學習，他的漢語好多了。Jīngguò (first tone, high and level) yì (fourth tone, falling) nián (second tone, rising) de (neutral tone) xuéxí, (second tone, rising) tā (first tone, high and level) de (neutral tone) Hànyǔ (fourth tone, falling) hǎo (third tone, dipping) duō (first tone, high and level) le. (neutral tone)···

    After a year of study his Chinese is much better.

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