Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in junior high

JLPT level: N3

897 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 12

Meaning: surpass, cross over, move to, exceed, Vietnam

Kunyomi: こ.す -こ.す -ご.し こ.える -ご.え

Onyomi: エツ オツ

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Reading: そうにょう

Meaning: run

Strokes: 7

Examples

Examples with audio

する(ちょうえつする)   transcend

する(たくえつする)   excel, exceed

冬する(えっとうする)   pass the winter

感(ゆうえつかん)   superiority complex

す(こす)   go over, exceed, move [v.i]

引っす(ひっこす)   move [v.i.]

える(こえる)   go over, exceed [v.i.]

Onyomi Examples

エツ Yue (kingdom in ancient China; 6th C-334 BCE), Guangdong Province (China), Canton, Kwangtung, Vietnam

エツネン seeing the old year out, greeting the New Year, passing the winter, hibernation, playing more than the usual 12 rounds in one game

チュウエツ China and Vietnam, Sino-Vietnamese

ジョウエツ area on Japan Sea side of Japan, including Niigata

エツネン seeing the old year out, greeting the New Year, passing the winter, hibernation, playing more than the usual 12 rounds in one game

年蝶 オツネンチョウ eastern pale clouded yellow (butterfly, Colias erate)

ダンオツ alms-giver, person who donates to a monk or a temple, dana-pati

Kunyomi Examples

こす to cross over (e.g. mountain), to go across, to get over (e.g. hardship), to pass time (e.g. a winter), to surpass, to be better than, to exceed, to move house, to go, to come

える こえる to cross over, to cross, to pass through, to pass over (out of), to go beyond, to go past, to exceed, to surpass, to be more (than)