越

See also 愈

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 走 + phonetic 戉.

Han character

越 (radical 156 走+5, 12 strokes, cangjie input 土人戈女 (GOIV), four-corner 4380₅)

1. exceed, go beyond
2. the more...
3. the Yue, ancient non-Han tribes in Southern China and Northern Vietnam, related to the Vietnamese (越南)

References

• KangXi: page 1216, character 28
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 37110
• Dae Jaweon: page 1686, character 11
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3480, character 2
• Unihan data for U+8D8A

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Cantonese

Hanzi

越 (jyutping jyut6, Yale yut6)

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Japanese

Kanji

越 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: えつ (etsu), おち (ochi), かつ (katsu)
• Kun: こえる (koeru), こす (kosu)

Compounds

• 超越:
• 越境
• 越権
• 越度
• 越南

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Korean

Hanja

越
Eumhun:

• Sound (hangeul): 월, 활 (revised: wol, hwal, McCune-Reischauer: wŏl, hwal, Yale: wel, hwal)

• Name (hangeul): 넘을()

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Mandarin

Hanzi

越 (pinyin yuè (yue4), Wade-Giles yüeh⁴)

Compounds

• 越次
• 越搶越高
• 越搶越貴
• 越多越好
• 越冬
• 越发、越發
• 越分
• 越轨、越軌
• 越過
• 越級
• 越加
• 越界
• 越境
• 越快越好
• 越窮越見鬼，肚餓打瀉米
• 越窮越見鬼，越冷越吹風
• 越嚟越…
• 越来越…、越來越…
• 越禮
• 越南
• 越南話
• 越南人
• 越權
• 越位
• 越野
• 越野車
• 越野賽
• 越野賽跑
• 越狱、越獄
• 越…越…
• 越早越好
• 越障
• 越俎代庖

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Middle Chinese

Han character

越 (*hiuæt)

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Min Nan

Hanzi

越 (traditional and simplified, POJ o̍at)

1. to turn, to turn around

Compounds

• 越頭　(ua̍t-thâu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

越 (việt, vát, vẹt, vượt, nhông, vác, vệt, vót)

Compounds

• Việt Nam (越南)
• tiếng Việt (㗂越)
• 漢越