Jisho

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9 strokes
Radical:
mountain
Parts:
mountain peak, mountain pass, climax, crest, (kokuji)
Kun:
とうげ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1941 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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Kun reading compounds

  • 峠 【とうげ】 (mountain) pass, highest point on a mountain road, ridge, peak (e.g. of summer), worst (e.g. of an illness), crisis, critical point, most difficult part
  • 峠越え 【とうげごえ】 crossing a mountain pass
  • 碓氷峠 【うすいとうげ】 Usui Pass
  • 大菩薩峠 【だいぼさつとうげ】 The Sword of Doom (1966 film)

Readings

Korean:
sang

Spanish

  • puerto de montaña
  • desfiladero
  • esplendor
  • crisis

Portuguese

  • pico de montanha
  • passagem de montanha
  • clímax
  • cume

French

  • col (montagne)
  • sommet
  • crête
  • (kokuji)
1663 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1751 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1416 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1473 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1239 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1081 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1351 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1434 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1849 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
542 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
428 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
265 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
319 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
780 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
8068 Morohashi
358 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1464 New Nelson (John Haig)
773 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
835 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1248 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1254 2001 Kanji
3o6.3 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-6 SKIP code
2173.1 Four corner code
1-38-29 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5ce0 Unicode hex code

12 strokes
Radical:
run 走 (赱)
Parts:
surpass, cross over, move to, exceed, Vietnam
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N3
897 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

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On reading compounds

  • 越 【エツ】 Yue (kingdom in ancient China; 6th C-334 BCE), Guangdong Province (China), Canton, Kwangtung, Vietnam
  • 越年 【エツネン】 seeing the old year out, greeting the New Year, passing the winter, hibernation, playing more than the usual 12 rounds in one game
  • 中越 【チュウエツ】 Chūetsu (region in Niigata), China and Vietnam, Sino-Vietnamese
  • 上越 【ジョウエツ】 area on Japan Sea side of Japan, including Niigata
  • 越年 【エツネン】 seeing the old year out, greeting the New Year, passing the winter, hibernation, playing more than the usual 12 rounds in one game
  • 越年蝶 【オツネンチョウ】 eastern pale clouded yellow (butterfly, Colias erate)
  • 檀越 【ダンオツ】 alms-giver, person who donates to a monk or a temple, dana-pati

Kun reading compounds

  • 越す 【こす】 to cross over (e.g. mountain), to go across, to get over (e.g. hardship), to pass time (e.g. a winter), to surpass, to be better than, to exceed, to move house, to go, to come
  • 越える 【こえる】 to cross over, to cross, to pass through, to pass over (out of), to go beyond, to go past, to exceed, to surpass, to be more (than)

Readings

Japanese names:
えち、 えっ、 お、 こえ、 こし、 ごえ、 ごし、 ごや
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
yue4
Korean:
weol, hwal

Spanish

  • sobrepasar
  • cruzar
  • exceder
  • moverse

Portuguese

  • superar
  • exceder
  • Vietnã

French

  • doubler
  • traverser
  • muter
  • surpasser
  • Vietnam
1021 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
529 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4542 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1021 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
934 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2052 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1001 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1038 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1073 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1756 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
4108 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2085 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2825 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
393 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
37110 Morohashi
3314 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
5851 New Nelson (John Haig)
387 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
413 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1588 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1470 2001 Kanji
4n8.2 The Kanji Dictionary
3-7-5 SKIP code
4380.5 Four corner code
1-17-59 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8d8a Unicode hex code