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Kanji Detail for 渡 - "to cross, to pass, ferry"

  • Meaning

    渡 means "to cross, to pass, ferry."

    1. To cross - To traverse by boat over rivers or seas.

    2. To pass - To go through; to elapse.

    3. Ferry - Crossing point; ferry landing.

    4. To hand over - To give; to deliver.

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    transit; ford; ferry; cross; import; deliver; diameter; migrate

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    cross, ferry over; ferry

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    to cross; to pass through; to ferry

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    to cross, to ferry over, to pass through

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    To cross. Going from one shore to the other. All going from here to there is called 渡. As in "transitional period" (過渡時代). | A crossing point is also called 渡. As in ferry crossing (渡口).
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