Kanji
N3 12 strokes Grade 5 freq #285

overdo, exceed, go beyond, error

On'yomi (音読み)

Kun'yomi (訓読み)

Radical (部首)

walk shinnyō

Others with this radical

On'yomi compounds (音読み)

the past; bygone days
process; course
majority
extreme (measure, idea, etc.); radical
passage (of time); elapsing
passing through (a tunnel, station, town, etc.); passing by (e.g. of a typhoon)
accident (caused by negligence); error
excess; surplus
underpopulation; low population density
overwork; strain

Kun'yomi words (訓読み)

past; after
fault; error
going too far; going to extremes
just past noon; afternoon
to go too far; to go past

Example sentences

We sat talking about the remote past.

We are given to regretting our past.

He was in the process of making a final decision.

The medicine hastened the process of growth.