Friday, March 28, 2008

越 - MOVE, Run Beyond This Place


Readings & Meanings:

エツ

こ(える)

こ(す)

to go over, exceed; to cross, to move to

Common Usage:

引っ越し

越す

超越

Examples:

引っ越しの準備で忙しい。

毎度お越しいただきまして、ありがとうございます。

彼は何をするにも、超越している。

Translations:

I'm preparing for the move, so I'm busy.

Thank you for your patronage here so many times. (formal saying that shop attendants say when you leave)

He is, above and beyond, the best in whatever he does.

Radical:

走 on the left.

戉 on the right. A variant of 戈, spear, halberd, battle-ax.

Run and clear away obstacles with your ax.

Bonus:

Vietnam's kanji: 越南. Although it's very uncommon, these days, to write Vietnam as anything but ベトナム, it used to have the kanji for "beyond the south."

References:

http://www.kanjinetworks.com/indices/radindex.html
http://www.thejapanesepage.com/node/kanji/e.htm

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