过

to pass, cross; have done before

No. 45 most used · 0.32% of everyday spoken Chinese: about 1 character in every 309.

How it's built

• 辶walk
• 寸inch

A way to remember it

Walk (辶) inch by inch (寸) and you get through.

Words

• 不过

  bú guò

  only; merely; no more than
• 过来

  guò lái

  to come over; to manage; to handle
• 过去

  guò qù

  (in the) past; former; previous; to go over; to pass by
• 通过

  tōng guò

  to pass through; to get through; to adopt (a resolution); to pass (legislation); to pass (a test)
• 经过

  jīng guò

  to pass; to go through; process
• 超过

  chāo guò

  to surpass; to exceed; to outstrip

Sentences

• 你看过那部电影吗？

  nǐ kàn guò nà bù diàn yǐng ma

  Have you seen that movie?
• 其实他没去过美国。

  qí shí tā méi qù guò měi guó

  He hasn't actually been to America.
• 我一次也没见过他。

  wǒ yí cì yě méi jiàn guò tā

  I haven't met him even once.
• 我从没说过那种话。

  wǒ cóng méi shuō guò nà zhǒng huà

  I'd never say something like that.

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How often characters are written: wordfreq by Robyn Speer, CC BY-SA 4.0, with data from Google Books Ngrams and SUBTLEX by Marc Brysbaert and others. Meanings: CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0. Sentences: Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR. How often they're said: FrequencyWords and OPUS, from OpenSubtitles.