度 dù
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 广 — broad, vast, wide
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
度过
dùguò
to spend; to get through
Characters in this word
过 guò
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- 辶 — to walk
- Made of
- 辶 to walk 寸 inch
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 我度过了周末。 Wǒ dù guò le zhōu mò. I spent the weekend.
- 我们度过假期。 Wǒ men dù guò jià qī. We spend the vacation.
- 他度过难关。 Tā dù guò nán guān. He gets through a hard time.