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Kanji for Surpass
The kanji for “surpass” is 越, read etsu and written in 12 strokes. Here is what it means, how it is read, and the names it is used in.
越
surpass
To cross over and go beyond.
12 strokes On reading エツ、オツ (etsu, otsu) Kun reading こす、ごし、こえる (kosu, goshi, koeru) JLPT N2
Dictionary meanings: surpass, cross over, move to, exceed, Vietnam
Readings used for names on Nazuke: etsu, koshi
In Japan it appears in about 66 given names in the JMnedict name dictionary, in both boys’ and girls’ names.
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