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Kanji for Crossing
The kanji for “crossing” is 渡, read to and written in 12 strokes. Here is what it means, how it is read, and the names it is used in.
渡
crossing
To cross over rivers and seas toward new lands.
12 strokes On reading ト (to) Kun reading わたる、わたす (wataru, watasu) JLPT N2
Dictionary meanings: transit, ford, ferry, cross, import
Readings used for names on Nazuke: to
In Japan it appears in about 66 given names in the JMnedict name dictionary, mostly in girls’ names.
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