过 過
过過 in English
- to cross / to go over / to pass (time) / to celebrate (a holiday) / to live / to get along / excessively / too-
How it used to be written
These are the forms of 過, the traditional character: 过 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 西周早期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 15 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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“他会通过考试吗？“ “我怕是不会。“
"Will he pass the examination?" "I am afraid not."
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“以前我们没在哪儿见过吗？”学生问道。
"Haven't we met somewhere before?" asked the student.
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Facebook用户数量超过美国人口。
The amount of people on Facebook is greater than the population of the United States of America.
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Jane 年轻时曾做过女乘务员。
Jane was a stewardess when she was young.
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Jiro好像错过了火车。
Jiro seems to have missed the train.
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Nancy不可能看过这本书。
Nancy cannot have read this book.
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Ronnie James Dio的死让我非常难过。
The death of Ronnie James Dio made me very sad.