Meaning & readings
transit, ford, ferry, cross, import, deliver, diameter, migrate
Origin
This character combines water (the left component) with a sound hint on the right. The water radical makes sense because the main meanings involve crossing or moving across water — fording a river, ferrying across, or transporting things by boat. The right component acts as a sound guide, telling you roughly how to pronounce the character, rather than adding to its meaning. Together, the water element captures the core idea of crossing or transit, especially in a watery context.
AI-generated (claude-haiku-4-5), not yet reviewed. Formation type (automated guess): Phono-semantic (meaning + sound hint).
Components
- 氵
- 度
A sound hint component points at the character’s pronunciation, not its meaning — don’t read a meaning into it.
Common words
Reference
- Strokes
- 12
- Kangxi radical
- 85
- Grade
- Jōyō (secondary school)
- Frequency rank
- #446 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 2
- Unicode
- U+06E21