# 渡 — Transit

Frequency rank 480 / 2,608 in published Japanese.

Frequent enough that you will keep running into it once you read past headlines.

More common than 与 (Give), less common than 米 (Rice).

- On’yomi: と
- Kun’yomi: わた
- Radical: 水 Water (Kangxi 85)
- Frequency path: Level IV of XX

A tsunami on the left, yurt in the middle, stool on the right — a tsunami sends a yurt and stool floating in transit across the water, carried from shore to shore.

In words:

- 渡る わたる — to go across
- 渡す わたす — to hand over
- 渡り鳥 わたりどり — migratory bird;bird of passage

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