過
pass; exceed; overdo; go beyond; error
12 strokes. Taught in grade 5. Newspaper frequency rank 285.
Readings
- カ (on reading): 過去 (かこ) the past; 過程 (かてい) process
- すごす (kun reading): 過ごす (すごす) to spend (time); 寝過ごす (ねすごす) to oversleep
- すぎる (kun reading): 食べ過ぎる (たべすぎる) to overeat; 通り過ぎる (とおりすぎる) to go past
- あやまち (kun reading): 過ち (あやまち) fault; 過ちを改める (あやまちをあらためる) to correct a fault
- あやまつ (kun reading): 過つ (あやまつ) to make a mistake (in)
- よぎる (kun reading)
Components
Words using 過
- 過去 (かこ) the past
- 過程 (かてい) process
- 通過 (つうか) passing through (a tunnel, station, town, etc.)
- 経過 (けいか) passage (of time)
- 過激 (かげき) extreme (measure, idea, etc.)
- 過ごす (すごす) to spend (time)
- 寝過ごす (ねすごす) to oversleep
- 思い過ごし (おもいすごし) groundless fear
- 乗り過ごす (のりすごす) to ride past
- やり過ごす (やりすごす) to let (something or someone) go past
- 食べ過ぎる (たべすぎる) to overeat
- 通り過ぎる (とおりすぎる) to go past
- 昼過ぎ (ひるすぎ) just past noon
- 過ぎ去る (すぎさる) to pass
- 飲み過ぎ (のみすぎ) overdrinking
- 過ち (あやまち) fault
- 過ちを改める (あやまちをあらためる) to correct a fault
- 過ちを犯す (あやまちをおかす) to make an error
- 過ちては則ち改むるに憚ること勿れ (あやまちてはすなわちあらたむるにはばかることなかれ) when you make a mistake, don't hesitate to correct it
- 過ちて改めざるこれを過ちという (あやまちてあらためざるこれをあやまちという) a man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake
- 過つ (あやまつ) to make a mistake (in)
448 words in all.