Common in both Classical and modern Chinese, as well as Sino-Korean vocabulary.
Frequently appears in compounds related to ferrying or metaphorical crossing (e.g., overcoming hardships).

A phono-semantic compound:
Water radical (水) provides the meaning “related to water.”
度 (법도 도, to measure/pass) provides the sound.
Together, the character depicts crossing water by means of passage.

渡河 (도하) — to cross a river.
渡船 (도선) — a ferryboat.
渡口 (도구) — a ferry landing, crossing place.
渡世 (도세) — to make one’s way through life.

Characters

Words

Vocabulary

name of the Jing River, to flow, to pass through

to disappear, to vanish, to reduce, to eliminate

liquid, fluid, juice

clean, pure, clear

excessive, overindulgent, licentious, lustful, unrestrained, corrupt

deep, profound

clear, pure, clean, fresh

to lessen, to reduce, to subtract

to cross, to ferry, to carry across, to pass through, to overcome

the name of the Wei River

to boil, soup or broth, bathwater

origin, source, root, spring of water, cause, foundation

standard, criterion, norm, to match, to be equal to, water level, plumb line

warm, mild, temperate

to be blocked, delayed

full, filled, to fill, to satisfy, abundance, satisfaction

to fish, to catch fish, to angle, to gather aquatic life

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渡

Etymology

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